somehow the issues surrounding gettext and rebuilding all its dependents were unrecoverable for me. CPU time is cheaper that mine, so I wiped out /opt and am starting over. I figured a good way to start is to build a port that requires a lot of infrastructure to be built, and get it all over with. I picked inkscape. it chugged long nicely until here: checking icon-naming-utils >= 0.8.1... no configure: error: icon-naming-utils >= 0.8.1 is required to build and install gnome-icon-theme installed icon-naming-utils and then started again (the interactive mode is pretty useful: hats off to whosever idea that was). looks like gnome-icon-theme needs fixing. inkscape did eventually finish, so I guess everything is OK now. -- Paul Beard contact info: www.paulbeard.org/paulbeard.vcf pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdb206/ Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? -- Paul Beard contact info: www.paulbeard.org/paulbeard.vcf pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdb206/ Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?