I removed "-bundle_loader $(Rexecbin)/R.bin" from the configure files but left "-undefined error". Now 1. Everything builds fine, i.e. the packages get their symbols from libR.dylib just fine. This is libR.dylib in the build directory, but I think dyld is smart enough to find it in the install directory as well if you were to remove the build directory. 2 The methods package builds, but refuses to dump. Adding the bundle_loader flag there again (manually) fixes that. Of course methods is different from the others because it actually uses R.bin to dump, I guess. 3. aqua.so still gets "-bundle -undefined error" from the new shlib ld flag (with bundle_loader eliminated) but also "-flat-namespace -undefined suppress" from somewhere else. That's too much. ==Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------