The AM_DISABLE_STATIC appears to pull in strange libtool junk so just remove it. RP - 27/5/09 Index: xdg-user-dirs-0.10/configure.ac =================================================================== --- xdg-user-dirs-0.10.orig/configure.ac 2009-05-27 22:27:20.000000000 +0100 +++ xdg-user-dirs-0.10/configure.ac 2009-05-27 22:27:28.000000000 +0100 @@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_PROG_LN_S AC_PROG_MAKE_SET -AM_PROG_MKDIR_P -AM_DISABLE_STATIC +AM_PROG_MKDIR_P AM_ICONV GETTEXT_PACKAGE=xdg-user-dirs