libtool-1.5.18 build fails

[jose isaias cabrera]

Greetings!

Long story, but trying to build latest libtool to see if it fixes a problem, 
but it's also failing.  Here is the full 'make' and 'make install' run:

jic 14:45:56-> make
Making all in .
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18'
CONFIG_FILES=libtoolize CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/bash ./config.status
config.status: creating libtoolize
config.status: executing depfiles commands
chmod +x libtoolize
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18'
Making all in libltdl
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18/libltdl'
make  all-am
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18/libltdl'
/bin/bash ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.
-g -O2 -c -o ltdl.lo ltdl.c
mkdir .libs
 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c ltdl.c  -DPIC -o .libs/ltdl.o
 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c ltdl.c -o ltdl.o >/dev/null 2>&1
/bin/bash ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc  -g -O2   -o libltdl.la -rpath 
/usr
/local/lib -no-undefined -version-info 4:1:1 ltdl.lo
gcc -shared  .libs/ltdl.o   -o 
.libs/cygltdl-3.dll -Wl,--image-base=0x10000000 -
Wl,--out-implib,.libs/libltdl.dll.a
Creating library file: .libs/libltdl.dll.a
ar cru .libs/libltdl.a  ltdl.o
ranlib .libs/libltdl.a
creating libltdl.la
(cd .libs && rm -f libltdl.la && ln -s ../libltdl.la libltdl.la)
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18/libltdl'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18/libltdl'
Making all in doc
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18/doc'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18/doc'
Making all in tests
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18/tests'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18/tests'
jic 14:46:12-> make install
Making install in .
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18'
test -z "/usr/local/bin" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/bin"
 /usr/bin/install -c 'libtool' '/usr/local/bin/libtool'
 /usr/bin/install -c 'libtoolize' '/usr/local/bin/libtoolize'
test -z "/usr/local/share/aclocal" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/share/aclocal"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'libtool.m4' 
'/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4'
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file 
`/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m
4': Permission denied
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'ltdl.m4' '/usr/local/share/aclocal/ltdl.m4'
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file 
`/usr/local/share/aclocal/ltdl.m4':
 Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-aclocalDATA] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/us319318/apps/libtool-1.5.18'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
jic 14:46:33->

Why am I getting this "Permission denied" error?

Help.

thanks,

josé