problems compiling glib

[Amol Karnik <amol memcad com>]

hi all,

hope this is the right place to ask this question.
i just checked out the gnome source code, using cvs... checked out glib
and gtk+
according to instructions, i typed in ./autogen.sh --prefix=/my/dir and
it went through the configure and produced a makefile. i'm using the Sun
C compiler on a Solaris2.5.1 machine.
when i run a make, it fails saying 
make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 547: = missing from 
replacement macro reference

line 547 in the Makefile looks like this :

DEPS_MAGIC:= $(shell mkdir .deps > /dev/null 2>&1 || :)
 
-include $(DEP_FILES)
 
mostlyclean-depend:
 
clean-depend:
....
....
.....snipped.....



does anyone know why i'm unable to get past the first step towards
building gnome on a sun?
also, are there pre-compiled binaries available for gnome for
solaris2.5.1 or 2.6?

thanks in advance for any help.

regards,

amol