Hia, I rolled up the "make work for all awk's" patch along with one from Mike Castle that fixes an install error having to do with "mkinstalldirs". It's posted @ <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~flake/patches/>. Should make the install quite painless for most everyone now. updated inputrc and .vimrc available in my main dir also ;) Cheers, ~Ja-anxiously-awaiting-1.19.7.on --