Thanks again and again Ralph... well I am at a lost with what happened... I wasn't running autoreconf but diligently (or badly ? :) )typing the whole set of : libtoolize, aclocal -I m4, autoconf, automake .... I changed the else to what you suggested, ran autoreconf and it worked when running configure. I tried replacing by what I had before and repeating the process and it still works... I first thought maybe my comment in the middle of the line was responsible but apparently not.... so I am not sure what happenned but it works and I'll make sure I use autoreconf -v from now on... :) Thanks, Cheers, Eve _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf