Compile error on Debian

Hi,

I have been eager to try the gnunet program for a while but compilation 
fails on my Debian system using both the deb source package as well as 
the tarred source. Both give the same error at the same point in the 
compile process. Am I doing something wrong? :-)
Last screen of output and the resulting error messages are pasted below:

make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/mnt/samba/incoming/Linux/tarred/GNUnet-0.5.4a/src/applications/afs/util'
Making all in encoding
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/mnt/samba/incoming/Linux/tarred/GNUnet-0.5.4a/src/applications/afs/encoding'
/bin/sh ../../../../libtool --mode=link gcc  -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall 
-g -O2   -o libgnunetafs_encoding.la -rpath /usr/local/lib  
insertutil.lo keywords.lo -lextractor  libgnunetafs_blocks.la -lm -lnsl 
-lpthread
grep: /src/build/libtool-1.4.3/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libltdl.la: No such 
file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read 
/src/build/libtool-1.4.3/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libltdl.la: No such file or 
directory
libtool: link: `/src/build/libtool-1.4.3/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libltdl.la' 
is not a valid libtool archive
make[4]: *** [libgnunetafs_encoding.la] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/mnt/samba/incoming/Linux/tarred/GNUnet-0.5.4a/src/applications/afs/encoding'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/mnt/samba/incoming/Linux/tarred/GNUnet-0.5.4a/src/applications/afs'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/mnt/samba/incoming/Linux/tarred/GNUnet-0.5.4a/src/applications'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/mnt/samba/incoming/Linux/tarred/GNUnet-0.5.4a/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

What I find strange is that it looks in a completely non-existant 
directory for the file libltdl.la and is also in a completely different 
part of the file tree than where it is being compiled. I must backport 
the debs or just the source as my system is mainly the stable distro 
with various stuff backported to satisfy dependencies.

Thanks in advance for any help or info that you may be able to provide.

Regards

Matthew Smith