> Maybe your admins (or SUN) did not provide the development packages. Thanks for the suggestion - I'll ask again, specifically asking about things like libxml-devel, libglade-devel or perhaps gnome-devel. However, looking at the sun.com web page, I see only one package mentioned as relating to gnome on solaris. And in fact with this one package there are a few header files, several libraries, and even a _few_ .pc files - just not one for libxml . -- Tcl - The glue of a new generation. <URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/ > Larry W. Virden <mailto:lvirden@xxxxxxx> <URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/> Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should be construed as representing my employer's opinions. -><-