In message < 199709181848.LAA07960@telaviv.tmai.com >you write: > > When building on AIX, without explicit setting of envirnment > variable CC=cc, the configure script picks (or _may_ pick) 'xlc' > which cause a failure when linking cccp. Yea, the whole alloca handling, IMHO, is badly broken. It's something we're looking into revamping in the very near future. jeff