I can manually get the dnet port to work by editing its makefile: NIDSLIB = -L/usr/local/lib -lnids -lglib-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lpthread everything after -lnids is new. Probably the right way is to query the glib package config for its libs (or libnids if it supports it).... Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/