>> That's what I call non-trivial. Keeping in mind the dozens of iterations >> before everything you wanted is configured. > > Therefore I suspect you're to young to remember imake... ;-) I don't feel very young, and it was back in 1983 when I started programming. I did not write any program in C yet, though. So I really don't know what imake is for. But we were talking about how the average computer user can compile mplayer. What benefit does the average user find in imake? Or the advanced windows user? Greets, Kiste