autoreconf vs. libtool

[Ralf Corsepius]

Something weird (w/ autoconf/cvs, automake/cvs, libtool-1.4.2)

Checking out a virgin copy of a simple source-tree from CVS:

# cvs co libmail
..
# find ! -path '*CVS*'
./Makefile.am
./configure.ac
./libmail.pc.in
./libmail.spec.in
./mail
./mail/.cvsignore
./mail/Makefile.am
./mail/maillock.c
./mail/maillock.h

# cat configure.ac
AC_PREREQ(2.52g)
AC_INIT
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([mail])
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(.)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libmail,2.3.0)
AC_PROG_CC
AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Using libtool !
..

Now trying to "bootstrap" w/ autoreconf

# autoreconf -i -f -v
autoreconf: working in `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
autoreconf: running: aclocal  --output=aclocal.m4t
autoreconf: `aclocal.m4' is created
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
configure.ac: installing `./install-sh'
configure.ac: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
configure.ac: installing `./missing'
aclocal.m4:662: required file `./ltmain.sh' not found
aclocal.m4:662: installing `./config.guess'
aclocal.m4:662: installing `./config.sub'
mail/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
autoreconf: running: autoconf --force
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Autoheader

Apparently autoreconf fails to handle libtool correctly.

Ralf