Get the gnome.m4 file from gnome-libs HEAD, and stick it in your $(prefix)/share/aclocal directory. I hope you know how to get aclocal to find the .m4 files Install ORBit, gtkhtml, gnome-vfs and bonobo from CVS. If you can't figure it out from those instructions, too bad. :) All patches should go through nautilus-maint@gnome.org -- Elliot