I have tried compiling 1.7.18 on Centos 4 without luck.
When i run ./Config i get all the questions, when i have answered all of them i get this error:
Saving configuration results in config.cache... ./Config: line 310: config.cache: No such file or directory
done.
./configure --with-bindir=/home/ircd/services --with-datadir=/home/ircd/services --with-permissions=077
./configure: line 88: conf23450.sh: No such file or directory
./configure: line 89: conf23450.sh: No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `conf23450.sh': No such file or directory
./configure: line 201: conf23450.file: No such file or directory
./configure: line 964: config.log: No such file or directory