If you want to hack on the Gtk+ project, it will make you life easier to have the following packages installed: - GNU autoconf 2.12 - GNU automake 1.2d Available in ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey - GNU libtool 1.0h Available in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/ These should be available by ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu or any of the fine GNU mirrors. Beta software can be found at alpha.gnu.org. If you are accessing gtk+ via CVS, then you will need to take several steps to get it to compile. These are: cvsroot/gtk+# aclocal; automake; autoconf The "configure" script will not exist until you take these steps. Before running configure, make sure you have libtool in your path Please submit patches to the gtk-list@redhat.com mailing list (you must subscribe before you post, e-mail gtk-list-request@redhat.com with a subject of "subscribe"). All kinds of contributions are accepted. If at all possible, please use CVS to get the latest development version of gtk+; the README file has the CVSROOT information.