diff -urN sphinx-2.0.4-release-orig/configure.ac sphinx-2.0.4-release/configure.ac
--- sphinx-2.0.4-release-orig/configure.ac	2012-07-08 21:41:24.752002600 -0700
+++ sphinx-2.0.4-release/configure.ac	2012-07-08 21:42:30.489002773 -0700
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 SPHINX_CONFIGURE_PART([checking build environment])
 
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([config])
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall foreign])
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/searchd.cpp])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config/config.h])
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@
 
 AC_PROG_CC
 AC_PROG_CXX
-AC_PROG_RANLIB
+AC_PROG_RANLIB 
+AM_PROG_AR
 
 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([
 #ifdef __GNUC__