g++ is build essential. According to Debian policy it's therefore save to assume that every system that tries to build tetex-bin has g++ available (and according to Debian policy it would be a bug to add a build dependency on g++). cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed