trying on mint now and it stops too..

autogen.sh stops here

libtoolize: copying file 'build-aux/m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
configure.ac:58: installing 'build-aux/compile'
configure.ac:27: installing 'build-aux/missing'
Makefile.am:8: warning: user variable 'GZIP_ENV' defined here ...
/usr/share/automake-1.15/am/distdir.am: ... overrides Automake variable 'GZIP_ENV' defined here
Makefile.am:60: warning: user target 'distcleancheck' defined here ...
/usr/share/automake-1.15/am/distdir.am: ... overrides Automake target 'distcleancheck' defined here
src/Makefile.am: installing 'build-aux/depcomp'
src/Makefile.am:491: warning: variable 'libzcash_a_LDFLAGS' is defined but no program or
src/Makefile.am:491: library has 'libzcash_a' as canonical name (possible typo)

do you have instructions that work for that?

the bit in the INSTALL file does not work on my ubuntu. autogen.sh crashes too.