This uses downloaded tarballs in /mit/git/tarballs because the autotools available on athena are too old right now. On Athena 9.4 (rhel4): ./configure --prefix=/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/git/builds/curl-7.21.4/common --exec-prefix=/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/git/builds/curl-7.21.4/i386_rhel4 --with-gssapi=/usr/athena make make install On Athena 9.4 (solaris, sun.dialup): ./configure --prefix=/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/git/builds/curl-7.21.4/common --exec-prefix=/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/git/builds/curl-7.21.4/sun4x_510 --with-gssapi=/usr/athena --enable-ldaps make make install Link common for each architecture: (cd /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/git/builds/curl-7.21.4;\ for arch in `ls -d *_*`; do \ (cd $arch; \ ln -sf ../common/* . )\ done;) To deploy: (cd /mit/git/curl ; ln -sf ../builds/curl-7.21.4/{i386_rhel4,sun4x_510} .)