Hi Paul, I do hate contributing to this thread, but way back at the beginning, I believe I remember that his irritation began with with some indecipherable "command not found" message. I found the same thing quite frustrating. I also complained (somewhat more politely :), and now Ralph has augmented the code with xsystem_hint() so you'll know what package you are missing when a command fails to run. We developers are your (autotool maintainers) users. We like easy to use things, too. I know you do the best you can. I do appreciate it. Waaaaay better than rolling my own. :) Thank you. Regards, Bruce _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf