Well,

I thought before I turned in I would give an update of my progress, 
despite the embarassment of my earlier post (see readline...). 

LWP compiled with no problem after trading out process.s with the 
process.S  file found in the ARLA package.

After this I have had other stumbiling blocks (see earlier embarassment) 
but these were due entirely to me not having all of the necessary tools 
installed. (byacc, flex)

I am up to compiling Venus now, and I have run into an error in 
fso_cfscalls2.cc. These are the lines:

fso_cfscalls2.cc: In method 'int fsobj::Lookup(class fsobj **, struct 
ViceFid *, char *, unsigned int)':
fso_cfscalls2.cc:609:  'cputype' undeclared (first use of this function)
fso_cfscalls2.cc:609:  (Each undeclared identfier...
fso_cfscalls2.cc:609:  ...function it appears in)
fso_cfscalls2.cc:609:  'systype' undeclared (first use of this function)
make[2]: *** [fso_cfscalls2.o] Error 1
and so on back to the prompt...

This is where I am stopping so if anyone has any thoughts on this for 
tomorrow, thanks in advance

ant