I downloaded the CERN library src files from the public website: http://wwwasd.web.cern.ch/wwwasd/cernlib/download/2005_source/tar/ you can get here by clicking on "latest version" on the web page: http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/install/install.html Then I ran the script that is displayed by clicking on "shell script" on the same web page http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/install/install.html It created the structure. I placed some "echo" statements in the script so as I could follow the logic as described. But the generated log file at /home/mauede/Download/CERNLIB-Dir/2005/build/log contains 3 files (I'll send attachment "Log-After-1st-Script.tar.gz" in a separate e-mail bearing the same subject). Two of them show a lot of errors that I have no idea how to fix. I have NOT written such a code myself. So such a script failed to create the library. In fact the following directory: /home/mauede/Download/CERNLIB-Dir/2005/lib is empty ! One concern that I have is that IF the CERN library is for 32-bit architecture then I probably need to change some flags/options (which one ?) in the generated Makefiles (which one ?) as my laptop is 64-bit architecture. Since I ran the CERN library installation script without sourcing ~/bin/gcc-4.1 (I installed gcc-4.1 recently) the standard gcc-3.5 (that came with SuSE 9.3) has been invoked (so what ?) ... Following the guidelines on the CERN web page: http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/install/install.html I ran he second script that is displayed by clicking on "simple script". As a result I got some more error files in the /home/mauede/Download/CERNLIB-Dir/2005/build/log another 3 error files (I'll send the attachment "Log-After-2nd-Script.tar.gz" in a separate e-mail bearing the same subject) I forgot the intermedate step in-between the two scripts that is to build Pawlib as described by clicking on "here" at the same web page http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/install/install.html Neverless I think that is not so critical given the number of unresolved symbols etc... at the moment. I cannot figure out IF all these errors I got are due to using different building tools versions or to the fact that my laptop is 64-bit whereas the CERN library was built on a 32-bit machine. Or the flags and options in the automatically generated Makefiles are not corrects for my system ... I'm totally lost here ! I think there is no point at proceeding further without getting the lib created first. I would greatly appreciate some suggestion about that huge list of errors and how to address this problem. Sorry I'm a physicist with poor computer science backgroung so I struggle all the time with h/w and s/w related issues ... Thank you in advance for all your help, -- Maura E.M