[Linphone-users] FTBS: belle-sip-1.4.0 on Debian stable 7.8 due to libtool version mismatch

[J G Miller]

     PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"

              Debian Version 7.8

   tar xJf /usr/local/src/telephony/libraries/belle-sip-1.4.0.tar.xz


Despite forcing re-creation of configure scripts

   aclocal --force --verbose

   aclocal: found macro AM_PROG_VALAC in /usr/share/aclocal-1.11/vala.m4: 17
   ...
   aclocal: writing aclocal.m4

   autoconf --force --verbose

and running configure with no special options

   /bin/bash /usr/src/build/belle-sip-1.4.0/configure --prefix="/usr/local"

   make clean

   make

compilation fails due to libtool version mismatch

   Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/build/belle-sip-1.4.0/src'
Making all in grammars
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/build/belle-sip-1.4.0/src/grammars'
/usr/bin/antlr3  -make -Xmultithreaded -Xconversiontimeout 10000 -fo  . 
./belle_sip_message.g
two-threaded DFA conversion
two-threaded DFA conversion
  CC     libbellesip_generated_la-belle_sip_messageParser.lo
libtool: Version mismatch error.  This is libtool 2.4.6, but the
libtool: definition of this LT_INIT comes from libtool 2.4.2.
libtool: You should recreate aclocal.m4 with macros from libtool 2.4.6
libtool: and run autoconf again.
make[3]: *** [libbellesip_generated_la-belle_sip_messageParser.lo] Error 63
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/build/belle-sip-1.4.0/src/grammars'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/build/belle-sip-1.4.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/build/belle-sip-1.4.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2


The version of libtool on latest Debian stable release 7.8 is

  libtool --version
  libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.2
  Written by Gordon Matzigkeit <address@hidden>, 1996


According to the Debian package web site, 

   <https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libtool>

the version of libtool which will be supplied with the upcoming (couple
of months perhaps) new version Debian Jessie 8

    Package:  libtool (2.4.2-1.11)libtool 

which is obviously not 2.4.6 either.

In fact even Debian sid has nothing newer than libtool 2.4.2-1.11, so it
looks like it will be a long, long time before Debian stable gets libtool 2.4.6

Your advice on how to proceed please.