Dear Ralf: Sorry to keep pestering you. I'm now trying to build debian packages, which means the build directory differs from the install directory. Because of this, a lot of the shell scripts, python scripts, and compiled binaries in cctbx have a path like /sw/src/fink.build/ ccp4-5.99.3-1/ccp4-5.99.3 hard-coded into them, and I'd like the final one to look like /sw/share/xtal/ccp4-5.99.3 (for example). Similarly for Debian linux. Is there a simple way to build in one directory but use the final install-path for configuring? I've tried changing $install_root in the file cctbx_install_script.csh, but that didn't work. Similarly, I noticed the install_paths hard-coded into the dynamic libraries for cctbx are relative, rather than absolute like the others, for examle: % otool -L cctbx_dmtbx_ext.so cctbx_dmtbx_ext.so: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/ Python (compatibility version 2.3.0, current version 2.3.5) lib/libboost_python.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.0.0) /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.3.0) /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) Is there a simple way to change that? All the best, Bill William G. Scott Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA Sinsheimer Laboratories University of California at Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California 95064 USA