Les, I installed the development tools and development libraries, as you suggested. I even tried to install packages x*.x86_64 There were some unresolved dependencies in the latter, so I used --skip-broken with yum. There was a report of conflicting files, so i don't know how much was actually installed. Anyway, when I run autogen.sh configure make on a read-only copy of the liblouis svn repository I get the following errors. ../libtool: line 826: X--tag=CC: command not found ../libtool: line 859: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found ../libtool: line 826: X--mode=compile: command not found ../libtool: line 992: *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.: command not found ../libtool: line 993: *** Future versions of Libtool will require --mode=MODE be specified.: command not found ../libtool: line 1136: Xgcc: command not found ../libtool: line 1136: X-DHAVE_CONFIG_H: command not found ../libtool: line 1136: X-I.: command not found ../libtool: line 1136: X-I../../gnulib: No such file or directory ../libtool: line 1136: X-I../liblouis: No such file or directory ../libtool: line 1136: X-g: command not found ../libtool: line 1136: X-O2: command not found ../libtool: line 1136: X-MT: command not found ../libtool: line 1136: Xprogname.lo: command not found ../libtool: line 1136: X-MD: command not found ../libtool: line 1136: X-MP: command not found ../libtool: line 1136: X-MF: command not found ../libtool: line 1136: X.deps/progname.Tpo: No such file or directory ../libtool: line 1136: X-c: command not found ../libtool: line 1188: Xprogname.lo: command not found ../libtool: line 1193: libtool: compile: cannot determine name of library object from `': command not found make[3]: *** [progname.lo] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 This repository works on my home Linux machine, which is older than the vps. Thanks, John On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 01:27:58PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/16/2011 1:05 PM, Drew wrote: > >> I have a CentOS virtual private server from 1and1.com > > > > This may be a non-issue but have you tried compiling stuff before on > > this machine? Most of the VPS system's I've seen in operation have > > stripped out the build tools for performance& security reasons. > > If they let you add to the base install, try: > yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" > and maybe "X Software Development". > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > 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