On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:33:53 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero <federico@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >Kelly, please don't spread FUD. People build gnome-libs on Debian >boxes, old broken Slackware boxes, FreeBSD, Solaris, and other >beasts. What library are you talking about? popt. If you read gnome-hackers you'd already know about it since I posted there about this problem. ORBit would NOT build on my old slackware box until I installed this undocumented library. GNOME has a _lot_ of problems that it needs to clean up before it's ready for prime time on anything other than relatively vanilla RH or Debian box. Kelly