Hi Tim, Sorry, but I cannot access the original email, but your problems is in the rpm optimization flags. fixed spec: http://pastebin.com/KfW78RGd see the line beginning of %{__make} , replace it with: %{__make} CFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' -- Eero