Thanks Igor, Max, and CGF. All the suggestions were greatly appreciated and while they did not solve the problem I learned a new option - I thought I had all the good ones for reverting back to head and getting back to current but missed the -C. :-) Got it now though.
I also learned from trying to see why the -C didn't help either: that when I revert back to what is in CVS apparently CVS does not remove files that no longer exist in the repository from my current working directory if they still exist there???? Is this normal or is something flaky on my install? I finally saw the warning that there was a conflict and that Makefile.in ,aclocal.m4 and configure and bz2lib/configure no longer existed in the repository. Once I removed them from my working directory and a couple others that had been in the postinstall patch I tested for Igor and then updated again from CVS I finally got back to what looks like current and setup did compile. Thanks all for the lessons. bk
