i recently upgraded my machine from suse 7.1 (with lots of updates) to suse 8.0. after getting most of the system set up the way i wanted, i tried to compile e17 from cvs (i had been running e17 as my wm since feb). with 7.1, i had no problems with this, but the configure doesn't work right with 8.0. this is what i see: <-snip-> + ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/e17 checking build system type... i686-suse-linux checking host system type... i686-suse-linux checking target system type... i686-suse-linux checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for mawk... no checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes You are not running Linux - This script cannot auto-detect mmx assembly. You will have to enable the mmx assembly (which gives anywhere from 10% to 300% speedups) by adding --enable-mmx on the configure command-line. <-snip-> the configure finishes without too many errors, but i find it quite bothersome that autoconf doesn't seem to think i'm on a linux system. i think it may be related to the fact that the system type is being reported as i686-suse-linux, as configure is looking for something with linux-gnu in the descriptor. i know i can add a command line option to tell it which system to build for, but i shouldn't have to in order to build for the system i'm running on. did suse change some setting between 7.1 and 8.0 that would cause this? and, if so, is there some way i can change it to something that won't cause problems like this? thanks -- trey