Hello Michael, > The appearance of explicit build requirements like 'gcc-c++', 'cpp' (!), > 'perl' or even 'sed' in a couple of src.rpms indicates that there are > different opinions on what packages are considered as belonging into a > fundamental build environment. > /bin/bash, /bin/sh, bzip2, cpio, diffutils, gcc, gcc-c++, gzip, make, > patch, perl, python, redhat-rpm-config, rpm-build, rpm-python, sed, > tar, unzip Easiest solution IMO is to put all these dependencies on rpm-build. On an rpm based system you will most likely install rpm-build if you want to do any development. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research