Installation issue with ant and ant ./configure calling itself recursively

[AryamanBhagat]

I am trying to install Powergraph on an ubuntu 18.04 system.

I have tried the following so far.

-Changed outdated link in CMakeLists.txt to functioning link for the apache zookeeper.
-used apache zookeeper 3.5.5 (oldest version that works with ubuntu 18.04)

after making these changes and running make in release/toolkits/graph_analytics,

I get the following outputs from ./configure
configure_output.txt
config.log

I get the following output from running make in release/toolkits/graph_analytics

[ 4%] Built target libevent
[ 4%] Performing configure step for 'zookeeper'

/bin/sh: 1: ./confailed: not found
CMakeFiles/zookeeper.dir/build.make:108: recipe for target '../deps/zookeeper/src/zookeeper-stamp/zookeeper-configure' failed
make[2]: *** [../deps/zookeeper/src/zookeeper-stamp/zookeeper-configure] Error 127
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:177: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/zookeeper.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/zookeeper.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:140: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

This is even more surprising as this is a different error than what I had recieved when I started writing this issue. Last issue I was having had something to do with the ./configure file of zookeeper.

The file looks like this

#!/bin/bash ant compile_jute cd src/c ./configure $@

and this would fail to find a build.xml file and then go into an infinite loop of calling itself