Dear Ben,

Thank you for your help; version of Xcode upgraded to 2.2.1 solved the ranlib problem.


Proceeding to XaraLX unfortuately generates errors at the autoreconf command. Please see below:

System: Mac OS X 10.4.6 18.GHz PowerPC G5
Xcode: 2.2.1

packages:
Macintosh:~/XaraLX simonyoung$ sudo fink list pkgconfig automake autoconf libpng libjpeg
Information about 2065 packages read in 1 seconds.
autoconf 2.13-5 System for generating configure scripts, ...
(i) autoconf2.5 2.59-7 System for generating configure scripts
autoconf2.54 2.54-4 System for generating configure scripts
automake1.4 1.4-5 Tool for generating GNU Standards-complia...
automake1.5 1.5-6 Tool for generating GNU Standards-complia...
automake1.6 1.6.3-6 Tool for generating GNU Standards-complia...
automake1.7 1.7.6-6 Tool for generating GNU Standards-complia...
automake1.8 1.8.5-3 Tool for generating GNU Standards-complia...
(i) automake1.9 1.9.4-2 Tool for generating GNU Standards-complia...
p automaken [virtual package]
i libjpeg 6b-16 JPEG image format handling library
i libjpeg-bin 6b-16 Executables for libjpeg package
i libjpeg-shlibs 6b-16 Shared libraries for libjpeg package
libpng-shlibs 1.0.12-7 PNG image format handling library (old ve...
i libpng3 1:1.2.8-1 PNG image format handling library
i libpng3-shlibs 1:1.2.8-1 Shared libraries for libpng3 package
i pkgconfig 0.15.0-2 Manager for library compile/link flags


executing autoreconf:

Macintosh:~/XaraLX simonyoung$ pwd
/Users/simonyoung/XaraLX
Macintosh:~/XaraLX simonyoung$ autoreconf -f -i -s
/sw/share/aclocal/pkg.m4:5: warning: underquoted definition of PKG_CHECK_MODULES
run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/a...ending-aclocal
/sw/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GTK
aclocal:configure.in:9: warning: macro `AM_BINRELOC' not found in library
/sw/share/aclocal/pkg.m4:5: warning: underquoted definition of PKG_CHECK_MODULES
run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/a...ending-aclocal
/sw/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GTK
aclocal:configure.in:9: warning: macro `AM_BINRELOC' not found in library
Macintosh:~/XaraLX simonyoung$


Help gratefully received.

Kind regards,

Simon