Are you sure this is not related to a bug in libtool instead? There used to be a tiny patch in the Debian serf package that simply added "-- tag=CC" and got rid of the compilation problem.
Work around libtool's error such as: [[[ libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' ]]] Index: pkg-serf/Makefile.in =================================================================== --- pkg-serf.orig/Makefile.in 2008-06-22 16:46:26.000000000 +0900 +++ pkg-serf/Makefile.in 2008-06-22 16:46:41.000000000 +0900 @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ libd...@libdir@ included...@includedir@ -LIBTOOL = @APR_LIBTOOL@ +LIBTOOL = @APR_LIBTOOL@ --tag=CC LTFLAGS = @LTFLAGS@ CC = @CC@ CFLAGS = @CFLAGS@ Also see https://launchpad.net/~mdiers/+archive/svn16/+files/serf_0.3.0-0.3ubuntu1~ppa1~intrepid1.diff.gz -- serf-0.3.0 requires a recent version of libapr1-dev to build https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410901 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs