i have been reading and trying for at least a week and not sure what to do. i am trying to write a hello world app that has an option to use gtk 1.2 ior gtk 2.0 or nothing. i wrote a small demo program that i can not get working. could someone either help with it or give me a few tips on it. i started a thread here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-416934.html and here is the test source http://www2.uic.edu/~mhull1/mine-0.0.2.tar.gz thanks for any help and sorry if this is too newbie matt _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf