I'm not experienced with enough platforms to tell why line 5148 in libtool-1.4.2 configure doesn't call grep -e:
if { (eval echo configure:5149: \"$archive_cmds 2\>\&1 \| grep \" -lc \" \ >/dev/null 2\>\&1\") 1>&5; (eval $archive_cmds 2\>\&1 \| grep \" -lc \" \>/dev/n ull 2\>\&1) 2>&5; } Doesn't grep -e exist on your computers? On my unix box, which is UnixWare 7.1.1, grep -e is required to protect grep from interpreting the -lc as another switch. (grep returns a 2 for syntax error every time with this configure line) Please advise. I can't get any response from the bug-libtool list so far, and I'm not sure the best way to fix all six configures that are in that distro. Thanks. Matthew