--- a/configure	Sat May 12 12:15:26 2012 -0400
+++ b/configure	Sat May 12 15:22:39 2012 -0400
@@ -641,8 +641,6 @@
 DSYMUTIL
 MANIFEST_TOOL
 RANLIB
-ac_ct_AR
-AR
 DLLTOOL
 OBJDUMP
 LN_S
@@ -694,6 +692,8 @@
 INSTALL_DATA
 INSTALL_SCRIPT
 INSTALL_PROGRAM
+ac_ct_AR
+AR
 EGREP
 GREP
 CPP
@@ -3443,6 +3443,173 @@
   $as_echo "#define _TANDEM_SOURCE 1" >>confdefs.h
 
 
+
+# automake 1.12 requires this, but automake 1.11 doesn't recognize it
+
+# expand $ac_aux_dir to an absolute path
+am_aux_dir=`cd $ac_aux_dir && pwd`
+
+if test -n "$ac_tool_prefix"; then
+  for ac_prog in ar lib "link -lib"
+  do
+    # Extract the first word of "$ac_tool_prefix$ac_prog", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy $ac_tool_prefix$ac_prog; ac_word=$2
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
+if ${ac_cv_prog_AR+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  if test -n "$AR"; then
+  ac_cv_prog_AR="$AR" # Let the user override the test.
+else
+as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+  if { test -f "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" && $as_test_x "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; }; then
+    ac_cv_prog_AR="$ac_tool_prefix$ac_prog"
+    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
+    break 2
+  fi
+done
+  done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+
+fi
+fi
+AR=$ac_cv_prog_AR
+if test -n "$AR"; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $AR" >&5
+$as_echo "$AR" >&6; }
+else
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+
+    test -n "$AR" && break
+  done
+fi
+if test -z "$AR"; then
+  ac_ct_AR=$AR
+  for ac_prog in ar lib "link -lib"
+do
+  # Extract the first word of "$ac_prog", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy $ac_prog; ac_word=$2
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
+if ${ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_AR+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  if test -n "$ac_ct_AR"; then
+  ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_AR="$ac_ct_AR" # Let the user override the test.
+else
+as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+  if { test -f "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" && $as_test_x "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; }; then
+    ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_AR="$ac_prog"
+    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
+    break 2
+  fi
+done
+  done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+
+fi
+fi
+ac_ct_AR=$ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_AR
+if test -n "$ac_ct_AR"; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_ct_AR" >&5
+$as_echo "$ac_ct_AR" >&6; }
+else
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+
+  test -n "$ac_ct_AR" && break
+done
+
+  if test "x$ac_ct_AR" = x; then
+    AR="false"
+  else
+    case $cross_compiling:$ac_tool_warned in
+yes:)
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet" >&5
+$as_echo "$as_me: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet" >&2;}
+ac_tool_warned=yes ;;
+esac
+    AR=$ac_ct_AR
+  fi
+fi
+
+: ${AR=ar}
+
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking the archiver ($AR) interface" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking the archiver ($AR) interface... " >&6; }
+if ${am_cv_ar_interface+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  am_cv_ar_interface=ar
+   cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+int some_variable = 0;
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_compile "$LINENO"; then :
+  am_ar_try='$AR cru libconftest.a conftest.$ac_objext >&5'
+      { { eval echo "\"\$as_me\":${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \"$am_ar_try\""; } >&5
+  (eval $am_ar_try) 2>&5
+  ac_status=$?
+  $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+  test $ac_status = 0; }
+      if test "$ac_status" -eq 0; then
+        am_cv_ar_interface=ar
+      else
+        am_ar_try='$AR -NOLOGO -OUT:conftest.lib conftest.$ac_objext >&5'
+        { { eval echo "\"\$as_me\":${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \"$am_ar_try\""; } >&5
+  (eval $am_ar_try) 2>&5
+  ac_status=$?
+  $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+  test $ac_status = 0; }
+        if test "$ac_status" -eq 0; then
+          am_cv_ar_interface=lib
+        else
+          am_cv_ar_interface=unknown
+        fi
+      fi
+      rm -f conftest.lib libconftest.a
+
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $am_cv_ar_interface" >&5
+$as_echo "$am_cv_ar_interface" >&6; }
+
+case $am_cv_ar_interface in
+ar)
+  ;;
+lib)
+  # Microsoft lib, so override with the ar-lib wrapper script.
+  # FIXME: It is wrong to rewrite AR.
+  # But if we don't then we get into trouble of one sort or another.
+  # A longer-term fix would be to have automake use am__AR in this case,
+  # and then we could set am__AR="$am_aux_dir/ar-lib \$(AR)" or something
+  # similar.
+  AR="$am_aux_dir/ar-lib $AR"
+  ;;
+unknown)
+  as_fn_error $? "could not determine $AR interface" "$LINENO" 5
+  ;;
+esac
+
+
 am__api_version='1.11'
 
 ac_aux_dir=
@@ -3629,9 +3796,6 @@
 ac_script='s/[\\$]/&&/g;s/;s,x,x,$//'
 program_transform_name=`$as_echo "$program_transform_name" | sed "$ac_script"`
 
-# expand $ac_aux_dir to an absolute path
-am_aux_dir=`cd $ac_aux_dir && pwd`
-
 if test x"${MISSING+set}" != xset; then
   case $am_aux_dir in
   *\ * | *\	*)