Hi Damian - thanks for the report.
LTCOMPILE = $(LIBTOOL) $(AM_V_lt) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) \
$(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=compile $(CC) $(DEFS) \
$(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) \
$(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)
...
`libtool` has a
Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/10828.
Delete the configure check that would abort if `rm -f` does not work,
and delete the plans to make this a hard requirement in the future.
Instead, test to see if `rm -f` fails w/out arguments. If it does,
define am__rm_f such that it always passes a