if i do the following commands soup seems to work for me sed s/"httpd;;"/"httpd "/ << Makefile >>Makefile sed s/"httpd;;"/"httpd "/ << config.status >>config.status otherwhile it bails out during complile using this i can even upgrade from soup 0.7.4 to 0.7.9 (these commands are between configure and make) -- Victor Pelt <peltco at mail.utexas.edu>