Okay Janina: aflib is one of the osalp libraries so assuming you ran make install after compiling the open source audio stuff then only two things come to mind. First of all the compiler is not finding the library so it is either not in your ldso.conf library search path or it didn't get put in place when you compiled and installed the library. I set my gcc --prefix to /usr because I like things in /usr/bin, /usr/lib and so forth instead of /usr/local/... which is the gcc default. I recommend you check in your library directory to see if the library is there or not but I suspect not so then check in the osalp source directory to make sure the library in fact got compiled. If it did not then check your compile record to see what went wrong. I just went through the entire process to see what problems could happen when libxml2 was not installed and when osalp was not installed. Interestingly, I could not get anywhere close to where you got with osalp not installed it died way earlier than on your machine. Anyway, check over the above points and let me know from there. I will hopefully find some time to make a binary version available on the ftp site. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061