AC_PROG_LIBTOOL causes problems for automake?

[Daniel Katz]

Hi.

        I am trying to use automake, autoconf, and libtool together,
and have run into the following problem.  I put AC_PROG_LIBTOOL into
my configure.in and run the following sequence

$ libtoolize
$ aclocal
$ autoconf
$ automake --foreign -a

and get the message:

Core/Makefile.am:8: library used but `LIBTOOL' not defined in `configure.in'

where Core is a subdirectory of the project and line 8 of
Core/Makefile.am is the first LTLIBRARIES primary.

I then tried changing to AM_PROG_LIBTOOL, which worked when I copied
the contents of libtool.m4 into acinclude.m4.  Nevertheless, I
understand that AM_PROG_LIBTOOL is deprecated in favor of
AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, and am wondering what the issue is.  I have not found
anything in the documentation of automake, autoconf, or libtool which
seems to shed light on this.

I am using libtool 1.4, automake 1.4-p1, and autoconf 2.13 on Debian
GNU/Linux system with a 2.2.18 kernel.

Thanx.

Dan

P.S.  I hope this is the right forum for the question -- since it
seems to involve the whole libtool-automake-autoconf trio, it was a
bit hard to tell.

P.P.S.  Sorry if this is a FAQ -- the archives to this list don't seem
to be easily searchable.