Extraneous "T" during "make install"

[Henry Nelson]

While installing tiff-3.8.2, I got the following error:
   creating libtiffxx.la
   (cd .libs && rm -f libtiffxx.la && ln -s ../libtiffxx.la libtiffxx.la)
   /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libtiffxx.so.3.8T /usr/local/lib/libtiffxx.so.3.8
   install: .libs/libtiffxx.so.3.8T: stat: No such file or directory
   *** Error code 1

The libraries were built and named corectly (libtiffxx.so.3.8.2), but
somehow an extraneous "T" replaces the subversion number in the install
process.  I have tried both the latest GNU make and native NetBSD3.0 make.
The error occurs with either version of libtool:
   ltmain.sh (GNU libtool 1.2248 2006/01/21 17:40:19) 2.1a
or
   ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.22 (1.1220.2.365 2005/12/18 22:14:06).

The exact same error, "T: stat: No such file or directory", has been
reported by others in an earlier version of tiff:
   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2005/12/17/0016.html
and in another application:
   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.core/273

I'm not at all sure this is even a libtool problem.  Only a wild
hunch.  I'd appreciate any input you might have as to other possibilities
if you know for a fact this error could not be due to libtool.

Thank you very much, and best regards,

-- 
henry n.