i normally don't like recommending articles to people, but i think this one is important, and the author is dead-on: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/889/ title: Stop the autoconf insanity! Why we need a new build system. pete -- GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D