> That is true, but the latest make can only be build in presence of > the latest autoconf and latest automake (at least later that the > ones shipped with RedHat 8.0). Whoops? Last time I compiled make it didn't need anything but a working compiler. No autoconf, no automake. Even no make utility, there was a shell script to build the thing: $ ./configure $ sh build.sh Gerd -- You can't please everybody. And usually if you _try_ to please everybody, the end result is one big mess. -- Linus Torvalds, 2002-04-20