Hi folks: We built RPMs of the newly released NCBI code. You can pull them from here: http://downloads.scalableinformatics.com/downloads/ncbi/ . These include a patch to enable the RPM to build on a SUSE SLES 8.x based Opteron system. We do not have a Redhat x86_64 system to test the build on, so we cannot verify that platform either. The patch we created to complete the x86_64 support can be found at http://downloads.scalableinformatics.com/downloads/opteron/ncbi/opteron-m64.patch . This time around, we included simple optimization patches to the linux*.ncbi.mk files, and built specific versions for athlon and opteron. A Pentium 4 patch is there as well, though we cannot test that easily (no .p4.rpm target, and we need i686 to be able to run across P3 and higher architectures). Suggestions for what to do here are welcome. As usual, bug reports back to me, and we will try to get fixes out quickly. Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web: http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615