Dear Prof O,

On your "desktop" in Linux? That sounds odd to me.

Everything I do is a bit odd.

If you don't know what you're doing, yes.

That's precisely my point: I don't know what I'm doing.

An exaggeration. As I said, on a modern PC (e.g., an Athlon XP 3800), it only takes a few minutes

I was not refering to "compile time". I was referring to "Where on earth do I get a non-broken version of sed? What is sed anyway? Why won't patch work on this machine with these diff files? Is it patch that's not working or is it just that I'm a retard? What does it mean that the .tar.bz.tar archive is in an unrecognizable format?" Compiling GPC will be four hours work for me, minimum.

If you find one, it may not work.

So far, that 20041218 distribution of binaries has worked on every single one of the two dozen machines we have loaded it onto. Why would the 20070904 distribution fail to work? Yours, Kevan -- Kevan Hashemi, Electrical Engineer Physics Department, Brandeis University http://alignment.hep.brandeis.edu/