I recently downloaded the MonetDB-Feb2010-SuperBall-SP1.tar.bz2 file from the site in order to build MonetDB and I get this build failure: (...) config.status: creating mal_config.h config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing libtool commands make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/MonetDB-1270235519/MonetDB5-server/MonetDB5' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/MonetDB-1270235519/MonetDB5-server/MonetDB5/src' make all-recursive make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/MonetDB-1270235519/MonetDB5-server/MonetDB5/src' Making all in mal make[4]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/MonetDB-1270235519/MonetDB5-server/MonetDB5/src/mal' make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/MonetDB-1270235519/MonetDB5-server/MonetDB5/src/mal' make[4]: *** No rule to make target `mal.c', needed by `all'. Stop. make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/MonetDB-1270235519/MonetDB5-server/MonetDB5/src' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/MonetDB-1270235519/MonetDB5-server/MonetDB5/src' make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/MonetDB-1270235519/MonetDB5-server/MonetDB5' Please refer to the full log at /var/tmp/MonetDB-1270235519/log If you believe this is an error in the script or the software, file a bug and attach the logfile. make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 making MonetDB5-server failed I actually also see this error if I build the server package standalone after building and installing the pre-reqs 73, Matthew W. Jones (KI4ZIB) http://matburt.net