Just saw a message speaking about problems building on FreeBSD, but lost it. Anyway, your problem ist probably, that the configure script is finding the wrong gcc. Try to run CC=gcc CXX=g++ ./configure If you install gcc-2.8.1 the normal way, 'gcc' will find 2.8.1, but 'cc' will continue to find the old (2.7.1) compiler. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]