On Saturday 26 February 2005 10:33 am, you wrote:
> can you try make -f Makefile.cvs before configure?
> we should make this more obvious in the documentation :)
> a wiki would be a good path for installation docs i
> think... i'll ask richard about this.

Thanks, that's helped--make has been chugging along for close to 3 hours now.  
(Not quite like the good ol' Turbo Pascal days ;-)

I did have to upgrade autoconf and automake, but fortunately (for me), there 
were RPMs on the Mandrake 10 install disks.

regards,
Randy Kramer