The broken stuff is likely because stuff isn't in the places the configure
script expects, etc. This install is very new and the upgrade from CentOS
7 to Rocky 8.5 was tedious. I wouldn't blame nmh until I did a lot of
debugging.
Well, could you give us some details on what is broken? configure is
supposed to try to figure out where things are, in terms of software
libraries. If you're talking about helper programs, that situation
is a bit different, but there is also a script that is supposed to
figure pathnames out.
--Ken