I believe his point is that this thread seems disproportionately long (and cross-posted too widely) for the small potential benefit, if ever something comes of it. Ralf doesn't need to read, or even respond to the thread if that is the case. I like the blurb Eric suggested, Most packages support installation into a staging directory (e.g. for packaging or testing purposes), by setting the DESTDIR variable, as in @samp{make DESTDIR=@var{dir} install}. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf