Hi again, Still trying to get octave and octave-forge installed on a Leopard / Santa Rosa Macbook. This time the teTex install bailed out. The relevant error is: /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -o xdvi-xaw.bin -L/opt/local/lib browser.o dvi-draw.o dvi-init.o dvisel.o encodings.o events.o filehist.o font-open.o gf.o hypertex.o image-magick.o mime.o my- snprintf.o my-vsnprintf.o pagehist.o pk.o print-internal.o psdps.o psgs.o psheader.o psnews.o read-mapfile.o search-internal.o special.o string-utils.o tfmload.o util.o vf.o xdvi.o xserver-info.o x_util.o ./ gui/libgui.a ../../libs/t1lib/libt1.a ../../libs/t1lib/../type1/ libtype1.a -L/usr/local (from old Mac)/lib -L/usr/X11/lib -lXaw - lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXp -lXext -lX11 -liconv -lXpm ../kpathsea/ libkpathsea.la -lm /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /bin/sh: -c: line 0: `/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -o xdvi- xaw.bin -L/opt/local/lib browser.o dvi-draw.o dvi-init.o dvisel.o encodings.o events.o filehist.o font-open.o gf.o hypertex.o image- magick.o mime.o my-snprintf.o my-vsnprintf.o pagehist.o pk.o print- internal.o psdps.o psgs.o psheader.o psnews.o read-mapfile.o search- internal.o special.o string-utils.o tfmload.o util.o vf.o xdvi.o xserver-info.o x_util.o ./gui/libgui.a ../../libs/t1lib/libt1.a ../../ libs/t1lib/../type1/libtype1.a -L/usr/local (from old Mac)/lib -L/usr/ X11/lib -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXp -lXext -lX11 -liconv - lXpm ../kpathsea/libkpathsea.la -lm ' make[2]: *** [xdvi-xaw.bin] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 1 Digging in it appears that the 'config.cache' file wasn't cleaned out prior to distribution and a bad definition for one of the library paths was left in resulting in the following entry in the xdvik Makefile: x_ldflags=-L/usr/local (from old Mac)/lib -L/usr/X11/lib Removing the " (from old Mac) " in the Makefile allowed the build to proceed to completion. Eric