I cannot reproduce the "Incorrectly thinks it's building as root" problem. When I try the build fails with checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/tmp/buildd/ocaml-lame-0.3.0': configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile See `config.log' for more details make: *** [debian/stamp-autotools] Error 1 Bye, Hendrik