another compile problem

[Keith Antoine]

its mp1e-1.8 that i need for mplayer and its stopping at::

checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
loading cache /dev/null within ltconfig
./ltconfig: .: /dev/null: not a regular file
ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify'
Try `ltconfig --help' for more information.
configure: error: libtool configure failed

Know I have libtool as its been used when compiling kde-3.0 so do not know 
why the above stopped.
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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
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