[snip] > Basically the following behaviour could be observed: > > "make" crashes at the FIRST RUN saying that gimpwidgets.o would not exist - > even though it does. Running "make" a second time runs smooth - no problems. > > "make install" crashes always at the FIRST RUN saying: > ln -s ../../dialogs > /usr/share/gimp/1.2/help/C/toolbox/help/dialogs > ln: cannot create symbolic link `/usr/share/gimp/1.2/help/C/toolbox/help/dialogs > ' to `../../dialogs': No such file or directory [snip] I'm not an expert, but what version of GTK do you have? You need 1.2.8, it will not work with 1.3 developer versions. I don't think that that's it, because I think you would have gotten other errors too then, but since it complains about the widgets it's a possibility. Lourens