for the sake of space, can we change the targets in src/Makefile.in to depend on libgpm.so and have it link against libgpm.so instead of libgpm.a ? it makes for a small bit of space saving :) for example, gpm-root does this: $(CC) @LDFLAGS@ $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $@.o @LIBS@ $(LIBS) lib/libgpm.a -mike