[help-gnubatch] ./configure detecting'LT_INIT: command not found' in gnubatch build

[Bill . Glessner]

Hello,

I am trying to build gnubatch-1.10 (and gnuspool-1.8) from sources on
SUSE 11/SP2 Linux systems, both x86_64 and ia64 flavors.
Running './configure --prefix=/usr/local', I get the following two

...
./configure: line 3958: LT_INIT: command not found
...
config.status: WARNING: ingnubatch.conf contains a reference to the variable 
 `datarootdir'
which seems to be undefined.  Please make sure it is defined
...

NOTE:
the `datarootdir' message occurs regaredless of whether or not the
--datarootdir=<PATH> option is provided to configure

libtool is installed on the systems.

% rpm -qa | grep -i libtool
libtool-2.2.6-2.131.1

Can you provide some assistnace in isolating the cause of these issues. I
suspect that the datarootdir one is not serious, but a 'make' following
the ./configure run fails with libtool errors. So I think that one needs
to be resolved.

Thanks you for your help,
Bill Glessner   System programmer
                Central Washington University