Hi, Sorry for cross-posting but I need to tap into my most helpful mailinglists for this problem. I have had assertion failed errors from make before and never understood what they were or where they came from. But now that I have them consistently for ffmpeg and mplayer on everything smaller than FC2, which prevents me from updating both mplayer and ffmpeg (and I know lots of other applications have the same issue). The exact error is: make: expand.c:489: allocated_variable_append: Assertion `current_variable_set_list->next != 0' failed. By coincidence (called Google) I found this page: http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/faq.html#faq.make_dies and it made the relation with make 3.79.1 pretty clear. (fc1, el3, rh9, rh7 and el2 all use make 3.79.1) I was wondering if anyone knows of a better solution than explained in the valgrind FAQ, or better than upgrading make. Once upon a time mplayer built without this assertion, other applications as well. So is this caused by a more recent configure/autotools used by the developers ? Some way to prevent this ? Anyone ? :) Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]