guckes@ritz:~/install/screen-3.9.13>_compilescreen this is screen version 3.9.13 checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no checking for library containing strerror... none required checking for gawk... gawk checking for a BSD-compatible install... /import/gnu/bin/install -c configure: checking for buggy tools... checking if a system-wide socket dir should be used... yes checking for the socket dir... (eff_uid ? "/tmp/uscreens" : "/tmp/screens") configure: checking for MIPS... configure: checking for Ultrix... configure: checking for butterfly... configure: checking for POSIX.1... - you have a POSIX system configure: checking for System V... configure: checking for sequent/ptx... configure: checking SVR4... checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... no checking for unistd.h... yes checking dwarf.h usability... no checking dwarf.h presence... no checking for dwarf.h... no checking elf.h usability... yes checking elf.h presence... yes checking for elf.h... yes configure: checking for Solaris 2.x... configure: checking BSD job jontrol... - you have jobcontrol configure: checking setreuid... configure: checking seteuid... configure: checking select... configure: checking fifos... - your fifos are usable configure: checking for broken fifo implementation... - your implementation is ok configure: checking sockets... - your sockets are usable configure: checking socket implementation... - you are normal - both sockets and fifos usable. let's take fifos. configure: checking select return value... - select is ok configure: checking for tgetent... configure: checking libcurses... - you use the terminfo database configure: checking ospeed... configure: checking for /dev/ptc... configure: checking for SVR4 ptys... checking for getpt... no configure: checking for ptyranges... configure: checking default tty permissions/group... - pty mode: 0620, group: 7 configure: checking getutent... configure: checking ut_host... checking utempter.h usability... no checking utempter.h presence... no checking for utempter.h... no configure: checking for libutil(s)... configure: checking getloadavg... assuming posix signal definition configure: checking for crypt and sec libraries... configure: checking crypt... configure: checking IRIX sun library... configure: checking syslog... configure: checking wait union... configure: checking for termio or termios... configure: checking getspnam... configure: checking getttyent... configure: checking whether memcpy/memmove/bcopy handles overlapping arguments... checking long file names... yes checking for vsprintf... yes checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes checking for library containing opendir... none required checking for setenv... no checking for putenv... no checking for nl_langinfo(CODESET)... yes checking for rename... yes checking for fchmod... yes checking for fchown... yes checking for strerror... yes checking for lstat... yes checking for _exit... yes checking for utimes... yes checking for vsnprintf... yes checking for getcwd... yes checking for setlocale... yes checking for strftime... yes checking for the global screenrc file... "/home/robinson/emailer/guckes/etc/screenrc" checking for the utf8-encodings location... "/home/robinson/emailer/guckes/share/screen/utf8encodings" configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: executing default commands Now please check the pathnames in the Makefile and in the user configuration section in config.h. Then type 'make' to make screen. Good luck. g