As things are now we have to have separate build scripts for applications like the Daisy Pipeline and BrailleBlaster, because the standard build script causes liblouisutdml.so to look in /usr/local/lib for liblouis.so . If the application is run on a different machine than that on which the libraries were compiled liblouis.so will not be in /usr/local/lib and the application will crash. Bert has sent me a modified Makefile.am for liblouis . similar modifications will be needed for liblouisutdml and for the tools. I think these modififications should be made in the new release of liblouis . I'll try to fix liblouisutdml, though I am no expert in gnu autotools. John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com