Dear stephane, sorry for the delay in reply ... apologies when i run ./configure i see the below errors only at the end configure: pcre.h was not found so the regexp won't be available in hostalias configure: lzma.h was not found so it won't be possible to process xz files make gives the below index.c:622:43: error: ā%04dā directive output may be truncated writing 4 bytes into a region of size between 1 and 5 [-Werror=format-truncation=] snprintf(yearnum,sizeof(yearnum),"%04d-%04d",year>>10,year...