>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Dalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> In a Makefile which is created using automake-1.4f, libtool is not Kevin> removed by distclean-am, in fact, it doesn't seem to be removed at Kevin> all. In automake-1.4-p4, libtool is removed by distclean-am. These Kevin> are the libtool related macros which I use: Kevin> AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN Kevin> AC_DISABLE_SHARED Kevin> AC_PROG_LIBTOOL Kevin> AC_SUBST(LIBTOOL_DEPS) Can you tell me more about this bug? I don't see it. Run the appended test. Then look at the resulting Makefile.in. It shows that distclean depends on distclean-am, which depends on distclean-libtool, which does `rm -f libtool'. How can I modify this test to see the bug? Tom #! /bin/sh # Make sure libtool is removed. # Report from Kevin Dalley . $srcdir/defs || exit 1 cat >> configure.in << 'END' AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN AC_DISABLE_SHARED AC_PROG_LIBTOOL AC_SUBST(LIBTOOL_DEPS) END cat > Makefile.am << 'END' lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la libfoo_la_SOURCES = foo.c END : > ltmain.sh : > config.guess : > config.sub $ACLOCAL || exit 1 $AUTOMAKE || exit 1