Artie> Sorry if I missed this in the FAQ...Is there a simply way to Artie> specify more options to the gnu configure stage? I want to inform Artie> the configure program that some libs exists at a path such as Artie> "/usr/local/include" and "/usr/local/lib". Thank you! -az I think with most/all apps that use configure you can just set the LDFLAGS environment variable appropriately. For example, Python's configure --help output includes this near the end: Some influential environment variables: CC C compiler command CFLAGS C compiler flags LDFLAGS linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir> if you have libraries in a nonstandard directory <lib dir> LIBS libraries to pass to the linker, e.g. -l<library> CPPFLAGS C/C++/Objective C preprocessor flags, e.g. -I<include dir> if you have headers in a nonstandard directory <include dir> CPP C preprocessor That said, I have no idea if the port command intercepts those settings in some way. -- Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/ The major difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Republicans don't know that Randy Newman's lyrics are full of sarcasm.