autoreconf always calling libtool with --copy option on Ubuntu 9.10

[Adam Mercer]

Hi

I'm running into a strange problem with libtool when running
autoreconf on one of my projects under Ubuntu 9.10. autoreconf always
seem to run libtoolize with the copy option, even though there in no
need for it to:

$ autoreconf -v
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I misc
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy
libtoolize: putting macros in `misc'.
libtoolize: copying file `misc/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: You should add the contents of `misc/ltoptions.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
libtoolize: copying file `misc/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: You should add the contents of `misc/ltsugar.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
libtoolize: copying file `misc/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `misc/lt~obsolete.m4'
libtoolize: You should add the contents of `misc/lt~obsolete.m4' to
`aclocal.m4'.
libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and
libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree.
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --no-force
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
$

The project is currently using a very old version of libtool (1.4.2)
which I am in the process of updating, however even when it is updated
to the latest version (2.2.6b) libtoolize is still called with the
--copy option:

$ autoreconf -v
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I misc
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy
libtoolize: `misc/ltmain.sh' is newer: use `--force' to overwrite
libtoolize: `misc/ltversion.m4' is newer: use `--force' to overwrite
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --no-force
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
$

I only have this problem with Ubuntu 9.10, does anyone know what could
be causing this?

Cheers

Adam