Darrell, I have experimented with tdebase building with -DBUILD_TSAK=OFF and building with it on and simply disabling it in tdmrc. I think the latter works just as well and gives the user to option to enable it if desired. All I do is post make-install: # disable SAK in tdmrc by default (user can enable if desired) sed -i 's/#UseSAK=false/UseSAK=false/' \ ${pkgdir}${TDEDIR}/share/config/tdm/tdmrc May help, may not, thought I would pass it along... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.