[bug-autoconf@ has a stupid filter that doesn't let me through, so I'm posting here instead.] On some systems (eg. Linux) flock(2) does not work over network, but Perl prefers that over fcntl(2) if it exists. So autoconf may fail on NFS if the filesystem has been mounted with locking enabled. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."