> Hmm which kind of other secret options is there for the configuring script Looking at the source-tree of TeX Live (Build/source): $ ls -l configure -r-xr-xr-x 1 te te 96059 Jul 4 2001 configure $ ls -l TeX/texk/web2c/withenable.ac -r--r--r-- 1 te te 4005 Mar 9 2002 TeX/texk/web2c/withenable.ac So, the reason is that the configure script needs to be updated by running autoconf. Thomas