Thanks to all who replied :-) Yes you were right the -devel package was missing.
Either I am dumb :-) or what ? AFAIK, usually when a *-devel is missing the compilation fails at the configure stage so I was confused. Lesson learned. :-) On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 22:38 -0700, Bernard Li wrote: [...] > BTW, there are some ia64 RPMs available for 3.0.3 here: > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43021&package_id=35280 > If those don't work, then you can try to rebuild the SRPM. Thanks but they appear to be build for RHE while I have a SuSE toy. I'd rather not take the risk on a production machine :-) Besides I like source rpms, it's so easy to compile your own stuff. Many thanks to all :-) -- Ryurick M. Hristev -- Systems Administrator (Unix) University of Queensland -- ITS Dept. mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] the greatest hacking experience: hack your own mind -- me