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