The same project that works fine in rhel doesn't work in CentOS the configure script produced by autoconf is bad. I suspect that CentOS is not including a needed development file. The project was developed over many years by autotools experts. If you want to try it I'll give you the URLs for fetching both liblouisand libluiusutdml from their repositories, or you can get them from the download page at http://www.abilitiessoft.com Thanks, John On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:17:31AM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, John J. Boyer wrote: > > > You saw my previous message about a strange error. I've tried many times > > to get autotools working on CentOS. It's the only distro in which I have > > had problems. How do i bring this to the attention of those who make the > > decisions? > > Autotools behave relatively sanely on CentOS as far as I'm aware and I suspect > there wasn't enough detail in your posting for anyone to properly help. If > it's a bug, raise it with Redhat, as CentOS just ship what they release. My > suspicion is it's actually working as designed, and you're not understanding > something. > > I'm assuming you've got a non-Redhat based history with linux based on > previous posts, or you're not that familiar with linux at all. > > jh > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities