I forgot: to reduce the current compilation output, type make silent (just filters the compilation lines with sed, stderr still visible). At some point one could introduce a config.h file, which is used to pass all the compile switches determined by configure to the preprocessor, so the awfully long compile lines would get shorter. But this requires adding a include directive to all source files, so I did not want to do it now. To build the test files (e.g. for crypto and mon stuff) make check They will never be installed by make install (the check target is just for compiling and running a package's tests. At some point one could add some active tests to this target). make distcheck this will ensure, that a generated tarball can indeed compile. Cheers, Derek