On 05/13/2014 09:32 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> autoreconf -f -i? > > Alas, no. > > Here's configure.ac, in case that's helpful. which contains: # curses AC_CHECK_CURSES if ! test "x$USE_CURSES" = "xtrue"; then AC_MSG_ERROR([Curses not found. You need curses to compile pinfo]) fi But without a definition for AC_CHECK_CURSES, I still don't know enough. I hate packages that assume they can use the AC_ namespace for their third-party macros. Can you find the definition of that macro in a .m4 file that gets included? That's probably the place that's creating the bogus command line. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org