I'm having trouble compiling the Viacoin daemon from source on Debian 7.5.  When I run configure (after running autogen.sh), I get the error:

./configure: line 2748: syntax error near unexpected token `disable-shared'
./configure: line 2748: `LT_INIT(disable-shared)'

I haven't had this problem using autotools on any other coin (e.g. Bitcoin).  What could be the cause?