There is clearly something seriously wrong with bootstrap of CVS
HEAD on my FreeBSD system. In order to try to investigate why the
VPATH build is now seriously failing tests on my FreeBSD and OS X
systems, I checked out the libtool sources from CVS to a clean
directory on the FreeBSD system. I then did a 'bootstrap'. The
resulting configure script is totally borked as illustrated by this:
shaggy:~/build/libtool-head-cvs% ./configure --help
libtool configure 2.1a
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This configure script is free software; the Free Software Foundation
gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
shaggy:~/build/libtool-head-cvs%
% ls -l configure
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bfriesen home 28205 Oct 19 10:57 configure*