I tracked the problem with bpm down to bad pkg-config output: bsd# pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 I don't know -anything- about pkg-config. (sorry if this is a dup, I accidently sent the last messages as root) - Mike H.