diff --git a/newlib/acinclude.m4 b/newlib/acinclude.m4
index 10671f8..ced86dc 100644
--- a/newlib/acinclude.m4
+++ b/newlib/acinclude.m4
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ AC_SUBST(newlib_basedir)
 
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([cygnus no-define 1.9.5])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign no-installinfo no-dist no-define])
 
 # FIXME: We temporarily define our own version of AC_PROG_CC.  This is
 # copied from autoconf 2.12, but does not call AC_PROG_CC_WORKS.  We
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ ac_given_INSTALL=$INSTALL
 
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
 LIB_AM_PROG_AS
+AM_PROG_AS
 
 # We need AC_EXEEXT to keep automake happy in cygnus mode.  However,
 # at least currently, we never actually build a program, so we never
diff --git a/newlib/configure.in b/newlib/configure.in
index 01c6367..e16271a 100644
--- a/newlib/configure.in
+++ b/newlib/configure.in
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 dnl This is the newlib configure.in file.
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
-AC_PREREQ(2.59)
+AC_PREREQ([2.69])
 AC_INIT([newlib],[NEWLIB_VERSION])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([libc])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([_newlib_version.h:_newlib_version.hin newlib.h:newlib.hin])
@@ -227,8 +227,7 @@ _LT_DECL_SED
 _LT_PROG_ECHO_BACKSLASH
 AC_PROG_AWK
 if test "${use_libtool}" = "yes"; then
-AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
-AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
+LT_INIT([win32-dll])
 fi
 
 dnl The following is being disabled because the mathfp library is