David,

Interesting observation....in actuality, I realized from your tip that I am compiling from a fat32 partition. I keep all of my data on an external USB drive that is partitioned half-n-half with a fat32 partition and a ext3 partition. And most of the data resides in the fat32 partition so that I can r/w my XP data from Zenwalk. And goofy me put the /MusicEditing/boost_1_33_1/ folder in the fat32 partition not thinking....
I will move all of the /MusicEditing/boost_1_33_1/ data over to the ext3 partition and try compiling from there.
Thanks for the observation and tip...I'll let you know if that works.

douglas