diff --git a/scripts/phpize.in b/scripts/phpize.in
index 013718f7d7d..8f29e0c00ec 100644
--- a/scripts/phpize.in
+++ b/scripts/phpize.in
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ touch install-sh mkinstalldirs missing
 aclocal || exit 1
 autoconf || exit 1
 autoheader || exit 1
-libtoolize -f -c || exit 1
+libtoolize=`$phpdir/shtool path glibtoolize libtoolize`
+$libtoolize -f -c || exit 1
 
 # dumping API NOs:
 PHP_API_VERSION=`egrep '#define PHP_API_VERSION' $includedir/main/php.h|sed 's/#define PHP_API_VERSION//'`