duane> yet, there is no 'libpopt<anything>' I can find to link against. david.korn> Let me introduce you: david.korn> http://cygwin.com/packages [snip] david.korn> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=libpopt.la Thanks, at times finding things is a "maze of twisty passages all alike" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure Perhaps my "bug report" - should be reclassified as a "bug in ioperm devel dependencies" in that "libioperm development" - should automatically require libpopt devel. -Duane. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/