I have had psybnc installed several times before without any problems, now i get the following error messages. I recently upgraded to 2.6 kernel version, other than that i havent really chanced my system since last time i installed psybnc, other than some updates from apt-get upgrade
the errors come when i do "make menuconfig"

tools/convconf.c:27: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '<' token
tools/convconf.c:87: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'FILE'
tools/convconf.c: In function 'convertlist':
tools/convconf.c:94: error: 'FILE' undeclared (first use in this function)
tools/convconf.c:94: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
tools/convconf.c:94: error: for each function it appears in.)
tools/convconf.c:94: error: 'listfile' undeclared (first use in this function)
tools/convconf.c:96: error: 'NULL' undeclared (first use in this function)
tools/convconf.c:99: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'strchr'
tools/convconf.c:105: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'sprintf'
tools/convconf.c:106: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'fprintf'
tools/convconf.c:106: error: 'outfile' undeclared (first use in this function)
tools/convconf.c: At top level:
tools/convconf.c:115: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'FILE'
tools/convconf.c: In function 'convertlists':
tools/convconf.c:119: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'sprintf'
tools/convconf.c:121: error: 'outfile' undeclared (first use in this function)
tools/convconf.c:121: error: too many arguments to function 'convertlist'
tools/convconf.c:123: error: too many arguments to function 'convertlist'
tools/convconf.c:125: error: too many arguments to function 'convertlist'
tools/convconf.c:127: error: too many arguments to function 'convertlist'
tools/convconf.c:129: error: too many arguments to function 'convertlist'
tools/convconf.c:131: error: too many arguments to function 'convertlist'
tools/convconf.c:133: error: too many arguments to function 'convertlist'
tools/convconf.c:135: error: too many arguments to function 'convertlist'
tools/convconf.c: In function 'main':
tools/convconf.c:142: error: 'FILE' undeclared (first use in this function)
tools/convconf.c:142: error: 'handle' undeclared (first use in this function)
tools/convconf.c:143: error: 'fconfif' undeclared (first use in this function)
tools/convconf.c:155: error: 'NULL' undeclared (first use in this function)
tools/convconf.c:158: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'printf'
tools/convconf.c:163: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
tools/convconf.c:178: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'sprintf'
tools/convconf.c:185: error: too many arguments to function 'convertlists'
tools/convconf.c:189: error: too many arguments to function 'convertlist'
tools/convconf.c:195: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'printf'
tools/convconf.c:199: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'fprintf'
tools/convconf.c:209: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'fprintf'
tools/convconf.c:214: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'

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'FILE' undeclared (first use in this function)
... usually means you're missing a library. But could it be that the psybnc version is quite old and using legacy libraries etc?

It works now. I dont know why, tried extracting the arvhive several times, and now for some reason i dont get those error messages. have some new ones now, but seems i just need to install ncurses libs, should be able to figure that out.
Thanks for your response.