Hi every body: I'm having a problem configuring a program for a static compilation. I'm using the command LDFLAGS="--static -I/usr/lib" CC="diet gcc -nostdinc" ./configure \ --prefix=~/result --disable-shared --enable-all-static --disable-nls how ever i keet on getting an error complainig about the need for libnewt. the library is there. I installed it from rpm packages with it's devel package. I've tried adding CPPFLAGS="-L/usr/include" I've tried searching the archieve before asking. any advice about how to solve this, or a place where I can get more about this situation ?? but no luck. I'm using redhat 7.3 By the way, I'm not an expert in compiling and linking . Thanx alot. -- Mansour Al-Aqeel mansour77@xxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service