Hi All -- i tried google search on this and found that there are people encounter the same problem back to 2.2.2 or earlier, this error comes up when the make enter /gtk/stock-icons saying failed to load "./stock_about_16.png": couldnt recognize the image file format for file './stock_about_16.png' and seems like that the gdk-pixbuf.loaders the make looking for has only 4 comment lines there, there must have a patch or fixed to download or am i doing anything wrong, in the configure, i do the following ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared (because i need the .a files to do static link) --thanks in the advance, Roger _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list