I gave up trying to get it to work on ubuntu, and have now just setup it up on a haiku partition and have it working. So far I've rebuilt sed, readline and libiconv. Keep on eye on updates to the download page on HaikuPorts for others as they are updated. http://ports.haiku-files.org/wiki/Downloads If the filename is dated on or after 2009-07-05 it's probably with the wchar fix in place. Feel free to add updated OptionalPackage links in the branch for the fixed packages. -scottmc