AC_MSG_CHECKING([libtool major version])
libtool="${switch_builddir}/libtool"
LIBTOOL_MAJOR_VERSION="`$libtool --version 2>/dev/null| sed -e 's/([[^)]]*)//g;s/^[[^0-9]]*//;s/[[- ]].*//g;q'| awk -F . '{print $1}'`"
+if test -z "$LIBTOOL_MAJOR_VERSION" ; then
+ LIBTOOL_MAJOR_VERSION="`sed -n -e '/^VERSION/{s/^.*=\([[0-9]]\+\)\..\+/\1/;p}' ${switch_srcdir}/build/config/ltmain.sh`"
+fi
+if test -z "$LIBTOOL_MAJOR_VERSION" ; then
+ AC_MSG_ERROR([Failed to detect your libtool version, please open a bug report on http://jira.freeswitch.org/])
+fi
AC_MSG_RESULT([${LIBTOOL_MAJOR_VERSION}])
LIBTOOL_LIB_EXTEN="$DYNAMIC_LIB_EXTEN"