diff --git a/alliance/src/configure.in b/alliance/src/configure.in
index 058862ec..babeb1be 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 1.1 2002/03/14 08:24:20 fred Exp $
+dnl $Id: configure.in,v 1.2 2002/03/15 16:17:13 fred Exp $
 dnl
 dnl
 AC_INIT(./mbk)
@@ -34,14 +34,34 @@ AC_PROG_CC
 AC_PROG_RANLIB
 
 changequote(,)dnl
-dirs=`\ls -1pd $srcdir/* | grep / | grep -v CVS`
-for i in $dirs ; do
-   if test -f $i/configure.in ; then
+# Build a compilation order that ensures that the libraries are
+# compiled and installed prior to the tools
+# Add in the following variable the library name (or part of it, as a
+# match is performed) that you what to compile prior to anything
+libraries="\<mbk aut \<rds"
+dirs=`\ls -l $srcdir | grep '^d' | awk '{print $NF}'`
+for l in $libraries ; do
+   for i in $dirs ; do
+      if test -d $srcdir/$i ; then
+         if test `expr match $i $l` -ne 0 ; then
+            ldirs="$ldirs `basename $i`"
+         fi
+      fi
+   done
+done
+tdirs=$dirs
+for i in $ldirs ; do
+   tdirs=`echo $tdirs | sed -e "s/\<$i\>//"`
+done
+for i in $ldirs $tdirs ; do
+   if test -f $srcdir/$i/configure.in ; then
       sdirs="$sdirs `basename $i`"
    fi
 done
-SUBDIRS=$sdirs
+echo $sdirs
+SUBDIRS="$sdirs"
 changequote([,])dnl
+
 AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS($sdirs)
 AC_SUBST(SUBDIRS)