I stumbled upon the fi -> pound sign bug. A search through google turned up the mail thread from July 2000 discussing it. It's still there. Please make the 1-character insertion to config.pdf so that this problem doesn't trouble anyone else. thanks, -neil ... adding the still undocumented -G0 to my makefile. sigh. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&bug=50247