hi everyone, I've been thinking on this problem for a couple of days and i haven't figured anything out ;/ the problem starts when compiling gnome. I've followed instrunctions on handbook. and after `prt-get depinst --install-sctipts gnome` during the libmp4v2 installation the following error appears: =============================================================== prt-get: installing /usr/ports/contrib/libmp4v2 =======> Building '/usr/ports/contrib/libmp4v2/libmp4v2#1.5.0.1-2.pkg.tar.gz'. tar -C /usr/ports/contrib/libmp4v2/work/src --use-compress-program=gzip -xf /usr/ports/contrib/libmp4v2/mpeg4ip-1.5.0.1.tar.gz libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'. libtoolize: linking file `./ltmain.sh' libtoolize: You should add the contents of the following files to `aclocal.m4': libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4' libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4' libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4' libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4' libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.in and libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree. libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. checking for ./bootstrapped... yes checking build system type... i686-pc-linux checking host system type... i686-pc-linux checking target system type... i686-pc-linux checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU ********************************************************************************** blah blah blah ********************************************************************************* configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating mpeg4-2000.h config.status: executing depfiles commands Making all in . make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/contrib/libmp4v2/work/src/mpeg4ip-1.5.0.1/lib/mp4v2' if /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../include -Wall -Wno-char-subscripts -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-deprecated -Wformat=2 -Wpointer-arith -Wsign-compare -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -DUSE_MMX -DMPEG4IP -MT 3gp.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/3gp.Tpo" -c -o 3gp.lo 3gp.cpp; \ then mv -f ".deps/3gp.Tpo" ".deps/3gp.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/3gp.Tpo"; exit 1; fi make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/contrib/libmp4v2/work/src/mpeg4ip-1.5.0.1/lib/mp4v2' prt-get: error while install -- Packages where install failed libmp4v2 I've found sth on the archlinux forum: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=365363 and tried to make use of this tip but I guess the structure of alocal.m4 file differs from this mentioned in the post. btw this file is about 7500 lines so finding a bug isn't simple. what i did was the fresh crux 2.4 installation and a system upgrade (using sysup). I've repeated the installation about 3 times and the result is always the same. It stops at this library, no matter if I at first invoke `prt-get --depinst --install.....` . It just installs few packages and after libmp4 failure the installation stops. thanks in advance for all usefull tips b.r mcf