Convincing Automake to support libtool

[Bob Friesenhahn]

I am using Autoconf 2.59 and Automake 1.9.3.  I am trying to update my 
project to use the latest development libtool 2.0 (1.9h).  Libtool 2.0 
eliminates AC_PROG_LIBTOOL and uses LT_INIT instead.  My project is 
using Automake includes so each subdirectory has its own Makefile.am 
file which is included into the top Makefile.am file.

The problem I am having is that Automake is not detecting that I am 
using libtool.  It seems to depend on seeing AC_PROG_LIBTOOL in 
configure.ac.  Somehow it does detect that the libtool test suite 
is using libtool.  The test suite does not use Automake includes.

Automake is producing an error message like:

coders/Makefile.am:172: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
coders/Makefile.am:172:
coders/Makefile.am:172: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add 
`AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
coders/Makefile.am:172: to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' 
again.

What should I do in order to encourage Automake to believe that 
libtool is in use?

Bob
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