>   I wonder if the libtool.m4.in file may not be the
> problem? There is no
> reference in libtool.m4.in at all concerning
> to_tool_file_cmd. Could this be the
> problem?
> 
> 10:51
> nirvana:/mnt/nv1/home/chroot/david/build/src/tdeutils/admin>
> grep
> to_tool_file_cmd *
> libtool.m4:AC_CACHE_VAL(lt_cv_to_tool_file_cmd,
> libtool.m4:lt_cv_to_tool_file_cmd=func_convert_file_noop
> libtool.m4:       
> lt_cv_to_tool_file_cmd=func_convert_file_msys_to_w32
> libtool.m4:to_tool_file_cmd=$lt_cv_to_tool_file_cmd
> libtool.m4:AC_MSG_RESULT([$lt_cv_to_tool_file_cmd])
> libtool.m4:_LT_DECL([to_tool_file_cmd],
> [lt_cv_to_tool_file_cmd],
> 
> ltmain.sh:    *,"$to_tool_file_cmd",*)
> ltmain.sh:      $to_tool_file_cmd "$1"
> ltmain.sh:            case
> $nm_file_list_spec~$to_tool_file_cmd in
> 
>   Nothing in libtool.m4.in. I don't know if
> libtool.m4.in is even used since the
> libtool.m4 is present, but this caught my eye looking
> around.

tdeutils built without error here last night (Slackware 13.1).

Darrell