Hi further to my upgrade question thanks for pointing me in the right direction any ideas how I get round the following problem: I'm trying to install on a Tru64 alpha ecs1h[jps]69: make `Makedeps' is up to date. `libappl.a' is up to date. `Makedeps' is up to date. `libnmath.a' is up to date. `Makedeps' is up to date. `libunix.a' is up to date. `Makedeps' is up to date. `libbz2.a' is up to date. `Makedeps' is up to date. `libpcre.a' is up to date. `Makedeps' is up to date. `R.bin' is up to date. `Makedeps' is up to date. `R_X11.so' is up to date. `Makedeps' is up to date. `internet.so' is up to date. `Makedeps' is up to date. `libRlapack.so' is up to date. ../../../bin/libRlapack.so is unchanged `lapack.so' is up to date. `Makedeps' is up to date. `vfonts.so' is up to date. building system startup profile building package 'base' ../../../library/base/R/base is unchanged ../../../library/base/man/base.Rd is unchanged building package 'ctest' ../../../library/ctest/R/ctest is unchanged ../../../library/ctest/man/ctest.Rd is unchanged Make: Cannot open ../../../../share/make/../../../../etc/Makeconf. Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. there is a Makeconf file in the directory I'm trying to install from /OSF1/R-1.7.1 ecs1h[jps]71: ls AUTHORS ChangeLog Makefile NEWS VERSION bin configure.ac include share BUGS FAQ Makefile.in ONEWS Y2K config.log date-stamp library so_locations COPYING INSTALL Makefrag.cc README acinclude.m4 config.site debian libtool src COPYING.LIB Makeconf Makefrag.cxx RESOURCES aclocal.m4 config.status doc m4 tests COPYRIGHTS Makeconf.in Makefrag.f77 THANKS afm configure etc modules tools thanks J. -------------------------------- Jason Skelton Pathogen Microarrays Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SA Tel +44(0)1223 834244 Ext 7123 Fax +44(0)1223 494919