Serious problems with libtool 1.4..

The upgrade to libtool 1.4 was most likely a big mistake. Here's what happened on my system where everything worked just fine before the update: I have most of the external libraries that the extensions need in /www/*/lib. And I have these in my configure script: --with-*=/www/*/ where * is the extension. Before that upgrade to libtool 1.4 this worked nicely. No problems at all. But after update nothing worked. It all started with having problems with IMAP extension. Reason: I had a libc-client.a in both /www/imap/lib/ AND /usr/lib. I deleted the one in /usr/lib and got past that problem. And then the next missing symbol was in BZ2..I had libbz2.a in /www/bz2/lib and libbz2.so in /usr/lib.. I could have deleted the one in /usr/lib again but that's just fixing the symptoms and not fixing the real cause for all this. I then reverted the libtool upgrade patches on my checkout and now everything works just fine. So..what should we do about this? Go back to 1.3.5? Or is there something I have missed? Some setting in libtool that fixes this? --Jani