Hi, I was a little disapointed that blender dosent get built with my linux systems global gcc flags. would I be correct in saying that on any linux system # echo $CFLAGS returns the default flags used by gcc? Anyway, I added this line, it works well on my system. (csh and bash) Sconstruct__________ release_flags = os.popen("echo -n $CFLAGS").read().split(' ') - Cam