1) $prefix isn't getting fixed-up by install-bindist.sh, at least on Solaris
2) where is the build directory? we need some stuff like config_vars.mk 3) a cool problem you'll run into after fixing the above download a binary build install it run apxs ouch! apxs doesn't pick up the environment variable needed to find libapr, libaprutil, libexpat, so "httpd -l" bombs... cool, huh? some possible solutions: just link those libraries statically to httpd and save ourselves certain types of grief (but probably bring on other types of grief which I don't really understand) add an apachectl option to let you pass whatever you want to httpd; if apxs uses apachectl, it will pick up any envvars needed to find the libraries have apachectl parse the envvars file and set whatever is necessary before calling httpd (gross) have apachectl create a temporary /bin/sh script which sources envvars and then does httpd -l (still fairly gross) have apxs know what OS-specific variable to set to find the libraries -- Jeff Trawick | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Born in Roswell... married an alien...