I am a looser...  I said nothing usefull besides...  it doesn't work...
here is the output

bash-2.03# ./configure 
loading cache ./config.cache
Written by <karsten.scheibler@bigfoot.de>, 1999-JUN-28

Configuration cancelled!
bash-2.03# 

Hopefully someone can help on this one...  I am trying to do as much as I
can to get ir working even though I can't find those patches... for 1.4.x