A few moments ago, I checked out the trunk, ran autoreconf and configure, but could not compile because of a Makefile error. $ svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/open-cobol/code/trunk trunk The Makefile failed to generate tarstamp.h. The message below is reformatted for your reading convenience. libtool: compile: gcc \ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H \ -I. \ -I../../libcob \ -I.. \ -I../.. \ -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 \ -I/usr/local/include \ -O2 \ -pipe \ -finline-functions \ -fsigned-char \ -Wall \ -Wwrite-strings \ -Wmissing-prototypes \ -Wno-format-y2k \ -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE \ -MT common.lo \ -MD \ -MP \ -MF .deps/common.Tpo \ -c ../../libcob/common.c \ -fPIC \ -DPIC \ -o .libs/common.o ../../libcob/common.c:23:22: fatal error: tarstamp.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. The only code I could find that generates that file uses $(distdir), which I don't think is right. I copied the tarstamp.h from a distributed tarball to the root of the build tree, and was able to compile and link successfully. --jkl