Didn't want to re-open to report my success, but I had downloaded the sources and that was really when it started to fail. But, for grins I did a 'make clean' or 'make distclean', don't remember which. After re-compile works like a champ! Did my "goes anywhere" change to the source for FT897, ID speed and Freq mods, and I'm back in business.
Thanks for looking into it.
GC
George J Csahanin
W2DB
Cedar Park, TX