>must i downgrade automake to 1.7 ?? You (or the maintainer) can also try to move forward. Generally, all you need to do is: aclocal automake --add-missing autoconf Sometimes you have to change %configure to ./configure --prefix=%{_prefix} --bindir=%{_bindir} --libdir=%{_libdir} --mandir=%{_mandir} The %configure macro goes haywire sometimes. If all goes well you are set. If it goes badly, then its a lot more involved than can be described here. Hope this helps... -Steve Grubb __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com