As many of you know I’ve been having computer issues lately, mainly because my idea of a good time is installing an additional opperating system on my computer. Well, that’s only partially true, but close enough for our purposes here. Anyway I’ve been fighting with boot loaders, linux, file systems, etc. for the past day or so in order to try to return my main computer to the level of functionality it had before I started messing around with it.*

Anyway, in the process of these various comples, configurations, etc. I came across a few little gems that make open source software so great. When compiling xmms (an MP3 player), the configure script while checking for all the