Hello Frank (and others) I don`t know which make is installed on my system. How can I check the "origin" or "brand" ? I`m sure, it is the default make that comes with a freebsd CD installation. Did you install a new make version when you tested the gpc compiler system on netbsd ? ...I don`t think so. Anyway, I didn`t find a bsd port of gnu make. Can I get it from the gnu webpage ? Greetings Karim ******************************************************************** Are you using GNU make? (If not, please do. You can install it in parallel to BSD make, say as gmake, and invoke gmake instead of make. You might have to restart building from scratch then.) Frank