Nicholas Clark wrote: >nick@Bagpuss [127]$ aspell -v >@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell .33.7.1 alpha) >nick@Bagpuss [aspell-0.33.7.1]$ uname -a >Linux Bagpuss.unfortu.net 2.4.5-rmk6 #4 Tue Jun 19 23:26:57 BST 2001 armv4l unknown Which libc version do you use ? The patch I sent assume it is glibc-2.2. (also I have serious doubt on the code generate by gcc on arm, but is probably unrelated) Cheers, Bill.