Problem with 'ant' detecting running ./autogen.sh

Hi,


I seem to be running into some trouble when running ./autogen.sh, in
particular with the ant detection part.

when i run something like 'ant -buildfile conftest.xml' on the
commandline, ant works as expected.
'ant -version' gives me 'version 1.8.3'

but when i run autogen/configure, I get this message :


checking for ant... /bin/ant
checking if /bin/ant works... configure: WARNING: Ant does not work -
Some Java projects will not build!
checking whether Ant is >= 1.6.0... Error: Could not find or load main
class org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher
./configure: line 34315: test: : integer expression expected
./configure: line 34318: test: : integer expression expected
configure: error: no, you need at least Ant >= 1.6.0
Error running configure at ./autogen.sh line 187.


i cant figure out whats going wrong here ?