On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 01:59:59PM +1000, Salisbury, Roger wrote: > how would I update /usr/bin/file ?? > ./configure spits this out > > *** Warning: the command libtool uses to detect shared libraries, > *** /usr/bin/file, produces output that libtool cannot recognize. > *** The result is that libtool may fail to recognize shared libraries > *** as such. This will affect the creation of libtool libraries that > *** depend on shared libraries, but programs linked with such libtool > *** libraries will work regardless of this problem. Nevertheless, you > *** may want to report the problem to your system manager and/or to > *** bug-libtool@gnu.org That's a libtool bug. My RH 7.0 port has the fix. Ralf