Hello All , THis one is kind of interesting . ./configure seems to have a variable that remains or becomes null . dug it out ... $ grep -n . ./configure | grep -C3 -n 6998 6267-6995: LIBNET_CONFIG=$with_libnet/libnet-config 6268-6996: fi 6269-6997: if test -x $LIBNET_CONFIG; then 6270:6998: LIBNET_CFLAGS="`$LIBNET_CONFIG --defines`" 6271-6999: LIBNET_LIBS="`$LIBNET_CONFIG --libs`" 6272-7000: { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: yes" >&5 6273-7001:echo "${ECHO_T}yes" >&6; } Commandling used for ./configure $ LDFLAGS="-static" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:../eventlog-0.2.5" ./configure --enable-static-linking --enable-tcp-wrapper --enable-spoof-source The output from the above . ...snip... checking for getaddrinfo... yes checking for getutent... yes checking for TCP wrapper library... checking whether to enable Sun STREAMS support... no checking whether to enable Sun door support... no checking whether to enable TCP wrapper support... no checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for GLIB... yes checking for EVTLOG... yes checking for LIBNET... which: no libnet-config in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/jlaferri/bin) ./configure: line 6998: --defines: command not found ./configure: line 6999: --libs: command not found yes checking for static GLib libraries... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating dist.conf config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating syslog-ng.spec.bb config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating doc/docvars.xml config.status: creating contrib/Makefile config.status: creating tests/Makefile config.status: creating solbuild/Makefile config.status: creating tests/unit/Makefile config.status: creating tests/functional/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: executing depfiles commands -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 663 Beaumont Blvd | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Pacifica, CA. 94044 | only on AXP | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+