Hi There seems to be two functionally equivalent lines in the configure script https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/configure: ... --with-gnu-ld assume the C compiler uses GNU ld [default=no] --with-x use the X Window System --with-gnu-ld assume the C compiler uses GNU ld default=no ... These seems to come from the macro files m4/librool.m4 m4/gettext-lib.m4 I assume that to be consistent, one of these should be removed, and the other look something like --with-gnu-ld assume the C compiler uses GNU ld [no] Cheers --Rory [[alternative HTML version deleted]]