Hi, > $./configure --enable-lpr --enable-floppy --enable-ide --build > i686-linux --host i386-gnu You need to build outside of the source tree. Building inside is not well tested (as you can see). Try: # cd gnumach # mkdir build # cd build # ../configure --enable-ide ... # make -Neal -- Neal H Walfield University of Massachusetts at Lowell neal@walfield.org or nwalfiel@cs.uml.edu