excel.la has no valid dlname?

[John McGinn <ab123 dnaco net>]

Hello...

   I've looked through the archives, and through google, and can't find
anything related to this. The error that I get when I try to compile
Gnumeric 1.0.8 is the following:

/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused  -Wsign-promo
-Wsign-compare -Wpointer-arith -Wnested-externs -Wchar-subscripts  -o
excel.la -rpath /usr/lib/gnumeric/1.0.8/plugins/excel -module
-avoid-version boot.lo ms-biff.lo ms-container.lo ms-escher.lo
ms-excel-util.lo ms-excel-read.lo ms-excel-write.lo ms-formula-read.lo
ms-formula-write.lo ms-obj.lo ms-chart.lo ms-summary.lo
mkdir .libs
rm -fr .libs/excel.la .libs/libexcel.* .libs/libexcel.*
ar cru .libs/libexcel.a  boot.o ms-biff.o ms-container.o ms-escher.o
ms-excel-util.o ms-excel-read.o ms-excel-write.o ms-formula-read.o
ms-formula-write.o ms-obj.o ms-chart.o ms-summary.o
ranlib .libs/libexcel.a
creating excel.la
(cd .libs && rm -f excel.la && ln -s ../excel.la excel.la)
../../xml-i18n-merge ../../po plugin.xml.in plugin.xml -x  --pass-through
Merging translations into plugin.xml.
sh ../../tools/fixup-plugin-xml plugin.xml excel.la
../../tools/fixup-plugin-xml: File excel.la does not contain a recognized
dlname.
make[3]: *** [plugin.xml] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnumeric-1.0.8/plugins/excel'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnumeric-1.0.8/plugins'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnumeric-1.0.8'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

I have not installed all of the Gnome base packages, but I have a good set
of them. (glib, xml-i18n-tools, gtk+, gnome-xml, libglade, libpng,
libjpeg, libungif, xpm, DB, ORBit, libtiff, Imlib, gnomelibs, gdk-pixbuf,
freetype, gnome-print, gal, and libole2.) I don't necessarily want a full
blown Gnome installation, but I did want some Gnome apps. (Gnumeric
specifically.) I searched the './configure --help' and the Makefile in the
plugins/excel directory, and I'm not sure where the dlname gets set, or if
it ever gets set. But, fixup-plugin-xml doesn't like the fact that it
doesn't have a dlname. Am I missing something obvious, or is there a
configure option to fix this?

Thanks
John McGinn