Was trying to compile a email client, called elmo, I do have xtool installed, and was suppose to be a easy compile, according to the readme.txt file. Here my output via terminal window.... FastMAC:~/desktop/elmo-1.3.2 rn$ ls ABOUT-NLS COPYING Makefile.in TODO config.rpath depcomp interface.pl po ADVOCACY ChangeLog NEWS aclocal.m4 config.sub doc intl src AUTHORS INSTALL README config.guess configure exec_table.pl missing themes BUGS Makefile.am THANKS config.h.in configure.in install-sh mkinstalldirs ylwrap FastMAC:~/desktop/elmo-1.3.2 rn$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes sed: 1: conftest.sed: invalid command code ? checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... no checking for awk... awk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. FastMAC:~/desktop/elmo-1.3.2 rn$ -------------- what is the problem, is it telling me, that there is no C complier installed?... I can see ( c++ and gcc 3.3 ) listed in the /bin folder. And according to the instruction, as I mention before... "If you downloaded a release of elmo, unpack the archive and type: * ./configure * make * su -c "make install" ------------------------ No so easy.... Any help appreciated... Richard