Yes you can use ports also .. i also prefer that only ... About snow leopard, I cannot say anything ..... i'm still to upgrade my mac with snow leopard. Give port a try once .... i think that should work .... > I haven't seen these problems tbh i have a mac dev machine its not my > main machine and i am not that familiar with it all yet, i upgraded to > that new snow leopard and it has broke several things for me namely > aclocal is generating stuff for autoconf 2.61 and the upgrade has given > me autoconf 2.63, and so when i run autoconf it just gives me an error > about that maybe i just need to reinstall. But i noticed when compiling > GCC it was better to use ports to install mpfr and gmp because it seemed > to add some patches i seen floating about some mailing lists for mac. > > Get rid of your personal builds and try ports installs is what i would > suggest. > -- Ankit Mahanot