can't get autoconf to work with libtool

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

Hello,

as suggested, I upgraded to autoconf-2.49a.tar.gz, but keep
getting this error:

ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify'
Try `ltconfig --help' for more information.
configure: error: libtool configure failed

I tried the Debian version of libtool, but got another
error instead:

loading cache /dev/null within ltconfig
./ltconfig: .: /dev/null: not a regular file
ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify'
Try `ltconfig --help' for more information.
configure: error: libtool configure failed
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1

I hacked ltconfig to not display this error, so it displays
the first one instead.

:-(
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>