If it wouldn't alarm the people around me in the office, I would be doing the NHD on top of my desk. The fraggin' compiler built cleanly and installed cleanly! <censored> WOOT! <censored> HUZZAH! A LOT of chocolate is going down today! Now we see what else the requester wanted and didn't think to mention. What did I learn? You can't build the utilities in the source directory because they will overwrite the source files in the process. Build a stage directory, but the tools in there, and then build them again to generate the final target. The build tools aren't 100% perfect, so if a file is AWOL, go find it and copy it in by hand Korn shell works, C and sh don't. Solaris is a nonoptimal place to build GNU software. The libraries stomp on each other. There are people in LJ who would notice if I took a running jump out the 19th floor window (thank you!) Next time, let someone else pick up this kind of ticket.