failed check for missing ocamlfind

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Pretend clean install, remove ocamlfind from PATH
2. Run ./configure && make

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected to see the warning that ocamlfind is not available.
Instead :
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for function prototypes... yes
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking byteswap.h usability... yes
checking byteswap.h presence... yes
checking for byteswap.h... yes
checking for ocamlc... ocamlc
OCaml version is 3.11.2
OCaml library path is /usr/lib/ocaml
checking for ocamlopt... ocamlopt
checking for ocamlc.opt... ocamlc.opt
checking for ocamlopt.opt... ocamlopt.opt
checking for ocaml... ocaml
checking for ocamldep... ocamldep
checking for ocamlmktop... ocamlmktop
checking for ocamlmklib... ocamlmklib
checking for ocamldoc... ocamldoc
checking for ocamlbuild... ocamlbuild
checking for ocamlfind... no
checking for camlp4of.opt... camlp4of.opt
checking for OCaml findlib package extlib... not found
checking for OCaml findlib package cil... not found
checking for time... /usr/bin/time
checking for diff... /usr/bin/diff
checking for gprof... gprof
checking for bisect-report... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating META
config.status: creating bitstring_config.ml
config.status: creating cil-tools/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
no ocamlc -g  -c bitstring_types.ml
make: no: Command not found
make: *** [bitstring_types.cmo] Error 127

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.0.2 on debian (without debian patches)

Please provide any additional information below.
Output is very confusing for inexperienced users.
Obviously dynamic typing of autohell is to blame.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ygrekheretix on 6 Apr 2010 at 8:59