Dear List Members, I've been trying to compile pacman for a while now but I can't figure out how to properly set the libarchive path with the following setup: - I'm working on a server where I don't have root access - the $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH are a mess - an old libarchive is in /usr/lib64/libarchive.so.2 - the current libarchive is in ~/.arch/usr/lib - I'd like ./configure to pick up the new libarchive I have tried almost all combinations of the environment variables (used full paths, ~ for clarity): export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.arch/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LIBS=-L~/.arch/usr/lib export LDFLAGS=-L~/.arch/usr/lib export CFLAGS=-I~/.arch/usr/include export CXXFLAGS=-I~/.arch/usr/include echo > ChangeLog echo > ABOUT-NLS ~/.arch/usr/bin/autoreconf --force -B~/.arch/usr/include ./configure But it still fails with the message: checking for archive_read_data in -larchive... no configure: error: libarchive is needed to compile pacman! I think I somehow need to prepend the personal library path to the paths searched, but how? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Michael