The configure script for vorbis-tools requires one to manually specify: --with-ogg-prefix=PATH --with-vorbis-prefix=PATH --with-ao-prefix=PATH This is quite a pain to type. It would seem that most people will be installing all of these packages into the same $prefix. So in the absense of specifying these flags, it would seem suitable to just check for the appropriate header files and libraries under $prefix. In the spirit of "optimize the common case", I have attached a diff (only a few lines, actually) to vorbis-tools/acinclude.m4 that does just this. It makes configuring much simpler -- you can just do: ./autogen.sh --prefix=/tmp/foo assuming that you've previously installed all the others with a --prefix of /tmp/foo. The same issue arises in vorbis' configure script, so I attached a diff for vorbis/acinclude.m4 as well. {+} Jeff Squyres {+} squyres@cse.nd.edu {+} Perpetual Obsessive Notre Dame Student Craving Utter Madness {+} "I came to ND for 4 years and ended up staying for a decade" <HR NOSHADE> <UL> <LI>TEXT/PLAIN attachment: vorbis_tools.acinclude.m4.diff </UL> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vorbis_tools.acinclude.m4.diff Type: application/octet-stream Size: 2085 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis-dev/attachments/20001204/fe1ebbd1/vorbis_tools.acinclude.m4-0001.obj -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vorbis.acinclude.m4.diff Type: application/octet-stream Size: 668 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis-dev/attachments/20001204/fe1ebbd1/vorbis.acinclude.m4-0001.obj