The .so is missing from my Linux shared libraries

[Thomas Gagné]

Oddly, the libraries work on my Suse Linux 9.1 but not my Redhat boxes.  
ldconfig doesn't seem to recognize the .so-less libraries as libraries 
at all.  Inside my build directory the file libtool reports 
shrext='.so', but it doesn't seem to build them that way.

What option is supposed to be present to the libraries are properly named?

   tgagne:/home/tgagne rpm -q libtool
   libtool-1.5.2-56.1
   tgagne:/home/tgagne rpm -q automake
   automake-1.8.3-23.1
   tgagne:/home/tgagne rpm -q autoconf
   autoconf-2.59-75.1

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