For some (outdated?) reason the damn configure does want to have a -pc- in the host type specified - which we do not have anymore (for professionality reasons). - Rene Rebe --- scilab-2.7/configure.orig 2003-02-06 08:42:04.000000000 +0100 +++ scilab-2.7/configure 2004-03-04 15:09:18.000000000 +0100 @@ -7362,7 +7362,7 @@ MAKEFILE_TARGET=Makefile.linux ;; # Linux ELF: all standard distributions - *-pc-linux-gnu) + *-*-linux-gnu) LIEEELIB= echo "$as_me:7367: checking for main in -lieee" >&5 echo $ECHO_N "checking for main in -lieee... $ECHO_C" >&6