I have installed the latest versions of autoconf, automake and libtool. When I run ,/autogenj.sh for liblouisxml or liblouisutdml it runs to completion. However, when I do ./configurre I get a syntax error on BASE_DEPENDEICIES. the culprit seems to be the line in configure.ac that says: PKG_CHECK_MODULES(BASE_DEPENDENCIES, [liblouis, libxml2]) Autoreconf gives no error messages. What do you suggest? Thanks, 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 and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com