when using a newer automake, the autoreconf step fails with warnings:
"linking libtool libraries using a non-POSIX archiver requires 'AM_PROG_AR' in 'configure.ac' "
This happens for instance on ubuntu 13.10.
Doing just that, adding 'AM_PROG_AR' to configure.ac fixes the problem.
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([config])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([parallel-tests foreign -Wall])
AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])
+AM_PROG_AR
AC_PROG_CC
AC_PROG_CC_STDC
AC_PROG_CPP_WERROR