Hi! I downloaded dia-0.87.tar.gz and on a RedHat 7.0 machine I typed: rpm -ta dia-*.tar.gz After a while I get the following error message: for file in $dists; do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$file /var/tmp/dia-0.87-root/usr/share/gettext/intl/$file; \ done; \ else \ : ; \ fi make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dia-0.87/intl' Making install in app make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dia-0.87/app' Makefile:789: warning: overriding commands for target `run_dia.sh' Makefile:559: warning: ignoring old commands for target `run_dia.sh' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dia-0.87/app' Makefile:789: warning: overriding commands for target `run_dia.sh' Makefile:559: warning: ignoring old commands for target `run_dia.sh' /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/dia-0.87-root/usr/bin mkdir /var/tmp/dia-0.87-root/usr/bin /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install -s dia /var/tmp/dia-0.87-root/usr/bin/dia libtool: unrecognized option `-s' Try `libtool --help' for more information. make[3]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dia-0.87/app' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dia-0.87/app' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dia-0.87' make: *** [install-strip] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.45534 (%install) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.45534 (%install) I am ready to give more information about what is happening if required. Daniel -- *********************************************************************** Daniel TOURDE E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +46 8 55 50 43 44 FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency; Aeronautics Division - FFA Dept. of Wind Energy and Aviation Environmental Research SE-172 90 Stockholm, Sweden Fax : +46 8 25 34 81 ***********************************************************************