hello richard , as per your previous suggestin i got new cvs download but i donot know why the same problem is presisting for me is either my system lacks some thing for that software which i doubt. so now my Make file look like this ***************************************************** [root@server ivr]# cat Makefile plug_in_name = ivr # # perl specific # # uncomment the next lines if you want to script the ivr with perl scripts # put used Perl modules here, e.g. time, mysql etc. PERL_DYNLOAD_MODULES = /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/IO/IO.so /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.so \ /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/Socket/Socket.so /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/DBI/DBI.so \ /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.so /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.so \ /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.so /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Date/Calc/Calc.so \ /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/MIME/Base64/Base64.so /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/POSIX/POSIX.so \ /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/Time/HiRes/HiRes.so /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so \ /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Bit/Vector/Vector.so /usr/lib/perl5/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so \ /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.so /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so PERL_module_ldflags = `perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts` -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT \ $(PERL_DYNLOAD_MODULES) PERL_module_cflags = -DIVR_PERL `perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts ` -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT # # flite text to speech # # uncomment the next lines if you want to have flite text-to-speech (ivr.say("Hello there"); ) FLITE_DIR = /usr/src/flite-1.2-release ALT_FLITE_DIR = /usr/include/flite IVR_TTS_module_ldflags = -L$(FLITE_DIR)/lib -lm -lflite_cmu_us_kal -lflite_usenglish \ -lflite_cmulex -lflite IVR_TTS_module_cflags = -I$(FLITE_DIR)/include -I$(ALT_FLITE_DIR) -DIVR_WITH_TTS LOCAL_INCLUDES = -I$(FLITE_DIR)/lang/usenglish LD_FLAGS = -ldl -lpthread -lutil -lm -Xlinker --export-dynamic -Xlinker --no-strip-discarded module_ldflags = -ldl -lpthread -lutil -lm -Xlinker --export-dynamic \ $(PYTHON_module_ldflags) \ $(IVR_TTS_module_ldflags) \ $(PERL_module_ldflags) # for perl support: # -DIVR_PERL `perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts ` # for flite text-to-speech support -DIVR_WITH_TTS module_cflags = \ $(PYTHON_module_cflags) \ $(IVR_TTS_module_cflags) \ $(PERL_module_cflags) include ../Makefile.app_module [root@server ivr]# ***************************************************** and the erroor information is ***************************************************** Ivr.cpp: In member function `virtual void IvrDialog::onSessionStart(AmRequest*)': Ivr.cpp:243: no matching function for call to `IvrPython::cancel()' make[1]: *** [Ivr.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/answer_machine/plug-in/ivr' make: [all] Error 2 (ignored) ***************************************************** with regards serdiehard __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail