Needed on Fedora 18, at least. Will generate a warninig on older platforms,
like EL6, but will not prevent build.
Fixes these error messages during autoreconf:
linking libtool libraries using a non-POSIX \
/usr/share/automake-1.12/am/ltlibrary.am: archiver requires \
'AM_PROG_AR' in 'configure.ac'
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
CC="$PTHREAD_CC"
+# required for newest autoconf
+m4_pattern_allow([AM_PROG_AR])
+AM_PROG_AR
+
AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
AC_CANONICAL_HOST