Rich Sahlender The patch below to servermd.h is a Sparc version of the PPC endian patch from #73022. It fixed the garbled text on sparc64 for me. The additional patches to stipsparc.s and stipsprc32.s are not endian fixes but were required for me to build from source on a sparc64. It might have been safer to: if defined(SVR4) || (defined(linux) && (defined(sparc) || defined(__sparc__))) but I was in a hurry . Regards, Rich