diff --git a/alliance/src/alliance.m4 b/alliance/src/alliance.m4
index d1d2261a..aa0f9f94 100644
--- a/alliance/src/alliance.m4
+++ b/alliance/src/alliance.m4
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(system64,
               --enable-system64   enable compilation on 64 bits systems (default is 32 bits),
               AC_DEFINE(SYSTEM64))
 
+AC_DISABLE_SHARED
+AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+AC_SUBST(LIBTOOL_DEPS)
+
 AC_MSG_CHECKING(for alliance)
 if test x$alliance_top != x ; then
   ALLIANCE_CFLAGS="-I$alliance_top/include"
diff --git a/alliance/src/configure.in b/alliance/src/configure.in
index 702d7d16..30417403 100644
--- a/alliance/src/configure.in
+++ b/alliance/src/configure.in
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ dnl           Almost ten years since I wrote this stuff, I just can't
 dnl           believe it
 dnl Date    : 01/02/2002
 dnl Author  : Frederic Petrot <Frederic.Petrot@lip6.fr>
-dnl $Id: configure.in,v 1.27 2002/09/10 17:42:33 pnt Exp $
+dnl $Id: configure.in,v 1.28 2002/09/23 15:15:50 pnt Exp $
 dnl
 dnl
 AC_INIT(./configure.in)
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ changequote([,])dnl
 AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS($sdirs)
 AC_SUBST(SUBDIRS)
 
+AC_DISABLE_SHARED
+AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+AC_SUBST(LIBTOOL_DEPS)
+
 AC_OUTPUT([
 Makefile
 ])