Hi, if dash is used as sh instead of bash, the configure script put in config.h #define ASMALIGN(ZEROBITS) ".align 1<<" #ZEROBITS " " instead of : #define ASMALIGN(ZEROBITS) ".align 1<<" #ZEROBITS "\n\t" A solution could be to use printf. IRRC, it was done in glibc for a similar problem. Matthieu