Yeah, I guess that works...but doing that on an ethereal source gives me a 626 line output. I was hoping for some magical trick that would give you an actual file list :) I don't know of any way to do such a thing, but twould be slick :) 626 line make -n install results tend to make rpm building about as enjoyable as grouting tile :) Wes On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Ken Bowley wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Wes Bateman wrote: > > > There must be a trick to take a source tarball and determine where it will > > "make" and "make install" its files to? > > Try doing a 'make -n install' and see what it gives you. (the -n tells it > to show you what it would do, but not actually do it.)