NACK. Something needs to be done, but overlinking every program to ncurses isn't it. I think the configure script should prob look for ncurses or curses when tinfo/termcap doesn't exist. I'll have a look when I get back. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v