Picking up from a discussion several months back, the build now uses the -rpath option (or -Wl,-R or whatever yours uses) to store the location of the shared libraries into the executables and the shared libraries themselves. That means that the LD_LIBRARY_PATH/ld.so.conf thing should no longer be necessary. When making a binary package you might not want to use this. Use "configure --disable-rpath" to disable it. Doesn't work on all platforms, though. (OTOH, if you're using hpux, osf/cc, or irix5 then this is old news for you, but now it's a feature across the board.) -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/