since nobody reacted I'll take a guess... Martin, shouldn't we be doing something like this? --- configure.in~ Thu Feb 10 23:13:41 2000 +++ configure.in Sat Feb 12 21:21:19 2000 ＠＠ -3091,6 +3091,7 ＠＠ dnl At this point, we know whether we need the motif lib or not. if test "$need_motif" = "yes" ; then XE_PREPEND(-lXm, libs_x) + AC_DEFINE(NEED_MOTIF) dnl AIX needs the following library for use with Motif AC_CHECK_LIB(i18n, layout_object_getvalue, [XE_PREPEND(-li18n, libs_x)]) XE_COMPUTE_RUNPATH()