diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 39fd65e..b34a2c8 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -2322,7 +2322,7 @@
 
 
 
-am__api_version='1.13'
+am__api_version='1.14'
 
 ac_aux_dir=
 for ac_dir in "$srcdir" "$srcdir/.." "$srcdir/../.."; do
@@ -2879,6 +2879,47 @@
 
 
 
+# POSIX will say in a future version that running "rm -f" with no argument
+# is OK; and we want to be able to make that assumption in our Makefile
+# recipes.  So use an aggressive probe to check that the usage we want is
+# actually supported "in the wild" to an acceptable degree.
+# See automake bug#10828.
+# To make any issue more visible, cause the running configure to be aborted
+# by default if the 'rm' program in use doesn't match our expectations; the
+# user can still override this though.
+if rm -f && rm -fr && rm -rf; then : OK; else
+  cat >&2 <<'END'
+Oops!
+
+Your 'rm' program seems unable to run without file operands specified
+on the command line, even when the '-f' option is present.  This is contrary
+to the behaviour of most rm programs out there, and not conforming with
+the upcoming POSIX standard: <http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=542>
+
+Please tell bug-automake@gnu.org about your system, including the value
+of your $PATH and any error possibly output before this message.  This
+can help us improve future automake versions.
+
+END
+  if test x"$ACCEPT_INFERIOR_RM_PROGRAM" = x"yes"; then
+    echo 'Configuration will proceed anyway, since you have set the' >&2
+    echo 'ACCEPT_INFERIOR_RM_PROGRAM variable to "yes"' >&2
+    echo >&2
+  else
+    cat >&2 <<'END'
+Aborting the configuration process, to ensure you take notice of the issue.
+
+You can download and install GNU coreutils to get an 'rm' implementation
+that behaves properly: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>.
+
+If you want to complete the configuration process using your problematic
+'rm' anyway, export the environment variable ACCEPT_INFERIOR_RM_PROGRAM
+to "yes", and re-run configure.
+
+END
+    as_fn_error $? "Your 'rm' program is bad, sorry." "$LINENO" 5
+  fi
+fi
 
 ac_config_headers="$ac_config_headers config.h"
 
@@ -3757,6 +3798,65 @@
 ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
 ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
 
+ac_ext=c
+ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
+ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether $CC understands -c and -o together" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether $CC understands -c and -o together... " >&6; }
+if ${am_cv_prog_cc_c_o+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+
+int
+main ()
+{
+
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+  # Make sure it works both with $CC and with simple cc.
+  # Following AC_PROG_CC_C_O, we do the test twice because some
+  # compilers refuse to overwrite an existing .o file with -o,
+  # though they will create one.
+  am_cv_prog_cc_c_o=yes
+  for am_i in 1 2; do
+    if { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: $CC -c conftest.$ac_ext -o conftest2.$ac_objext" >&5
+   ($CC -c conftest.$ac_ext -o conftest2.$ac_objext) >&5 2>&5
+   ac_status=$?
+   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+   (exit $ac_status); } \
+         && test -f conftest2.$ac_objext; then
+      : OK
+    else
+      am_cv_prog_cc_c_o=no
+      break
+    fi
+  done
+  rm -f core conftest*
+  unset am_i
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $am_cv_prog_cc_c_o" >&5
+$as_echo "$am_cv_prog_cc_c_o" >&6; }
+if test "$am_cv_prog_cc_c_o" != yes; then
+   # Losing compiler, so override with the script.
+   # FIXME: It is wrong to rewrite CC.
+   # But if we don't then we get into trouble of one sort or another.
+   # A longer-term fix would be to have automake use am__CC in this case,
+   # and then we could set am__CC="\$(top_srcdir)/compile \$(CC)"
+   CC="$am_aux_dir/compile $CC"
+fi
+ac_ext=c
+ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
+ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
+
+
 depcc="$CC"   am_compiler_list=
 
 { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking dependency style of $depcc" >&5
@@ -3993,7 +4093,13 @@
 if ${am_cv_ar_interface+:} false; then :
   $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
 else
-  am_cv_ar_interface=ar
+  ac_ext=c
+ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
+ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
+
+   am_cv_ar_interface=ar
    cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
 /* end confdefs.h.  */
 int some_variable = 0;
@@ -4024,6 +4130,11 @@
 
 fi
 rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
+   ac_ext=c
+ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
+ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
 
 fi
 { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $am_cv_ar_interface" >&5
@@ -15207,131 +15318,6 @@
 ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
 
 
-if test "x$CC" != xcc; then
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether $CC and cc understand -c and -o together" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking whether $CC and cc understand -c and -o together... " >&6; }
-else
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether cc understands -c and -o together" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking whether cc understands -c and -o together... " >&6; }
-fi
-set dummy $CC; ac_cc=`$as_echo "$2" |
-		      sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/_/g;s/^[0-9]/_/'`
-if eval \${ac_cv_prog_cc_${ac_cc}_c_o+:} false; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-  cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-
-int
-main ()
-{
-
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-# Make sure it works both with $CC and with simple cc.
-# We do the test twice because some compilers refuse to overwrite an
-# existing .o file with -o, though they will create one.
-ac_try='$CC -c conftest.$ac_ext -o conftest2.$ac_objext >&5'
-rm -f conftest2.*
-if { { case "(($ac_try" in
-  *\"* | *\`* | *\\*) ac_try_echo=\$ac_try;;
-  *) ac_try_echo=$ac_try;;
-esac
-eval ac_try_echo="\"\$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: $ac_try_echo\""
-$as_echo "$ac_try_echo"; } >&5
-  (eval "$ac_try") 2>&5
-  ac_status=$?
-  $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  test $ac_status = 0; } &&
-   test -f conftest2.$ac_objext && { { case "(($ac_try" in
-  *\"* | *\`* | *\\*) ac_try_echo=\$ac_try;;
-  *) ac_try_echo=$ac_try;;
-esac
-eval ac_try_echo="\"\$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: $ac_try_echo\""
-$as_echo "$ac_try_echo"; } >&5
-  (eval "$ac_try") 2>&5
-  ac_status=$?
-  $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  test $ac_status = 0; };
-then
-  eval ac_cv_prog_cc_${ac_cc}_c_o=yes
-  if test "x$CC" != xcc; then
-    # Test first that cc exists at all.
-    if { ac_try='cc -c conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
-  { { case "(($ac_try" in
-  *\"* | *\`* | *\\*) ac_try_echo=\$ac_try;;
-  *) ac_try_echo=$ac_try;;
-esac
-eval ac_try_echo="\"\$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: $ac_try_echo\""
-$as_echo "$ac_try_echo"; } >&5
-  (eval "$ac_try") 2>&5
-  ac_status=$?
-  $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  test $ac_status = 0; }; }; then
-      ac_try='cc -c conftest.$ac_ext -o conftest2.$ac_objext >&5'
-      rm -f conftest2.*
-      if { { case "(($ac_try" in
-  *\"* | *\`* | *\\*) ac_try_echo=\$ac_try;;
-  *) ac_try_echo=$ac_try;;
-esac
-eval ac_try_echo="\"\$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: $ac_try_echo\""
-$as_echo "$ac_try_echo"; } >&5
-  (eval "$ac_try") 2>&5
-  ac_status=$?
-  $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  test $ac_status = 0; } &&
-	 test -f conftest2.$ac_objext && { { case "(($ac_try" in
-  *\"* | *\`* | *\\*) ac_try_echo=\$ac_try;;
-  *) ac_try_echo=$ac_try;;
-esac
-eval ac_try_echo="\"\$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: $ac_try_echo\""
-$as_echo "$ac_try_echo"; } >&5
-  (eval "$ac_try") 2>&5
-  ac_status=$?
-  $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  test $ac_status = 0; };
-      then
-	# cc works too.
-	:
-      else
-	# cc exists but doesn't like -o.
-	eval ac_cv_prog_cc_${ac_cc}_c_o=no
-      fi
-    fi
-  fi
-else
-  eval ac_cv_prog_cc_${ac_cc}_c_o=no
-fi
-rm -f core conftest*
-
-fi
-if eval test \$ac_cv_prog_cc_${ac_cc}_c_o = yes; then
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: yes" >&5
-$as_echo "yes" >&6; }
-else
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
-$as_echo "no" >&6; }
-
-$as_echo "#define NO_MINUS_C_MINUS_O 1" >>confdefs.h
-
-fi
-
-# FIXME: we rely on the cache variable name because
-# there is no other way.
-set dummy $CC
-am_cc=`echo $2 | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/_/g;s/^[0-9]/_/'`
-eval am_t=\$ac_cv_prog_cc_${am_cc}_c_o
-if test "$am_t" != yes; then
-   # Losing compiler, so override with the script.
-   # FIXME: It is wrong to rewrite CC.
-   # But if we don't then we get into trouble of one sort or another.
-   # A longer-term fix would be to have automake use am__CC in this case,
-   # and then we could set am__CC="\$(top_srcdir)/compile \$(CC)"
-   CC="$am_aux_dir/compile $CC"
-fi
-
 
 ac_ext=cpp
 ac_cpp='$CXXCPP $CPPFLAGS'