> DESTDIR is an "alternate root". imagine that you are making an OS disk > and that you have the new disk mounted on /mnt. you'd say DESTDIR=/mnt > and then "make install" would make files like /mnt/usr/share/misc/nslookup.he In these parts, we call it a 'pseudo-root'. Given that, the patch I sent actually fixes a problem.... Yippeee! lamont