> The linking of mhttpd misses a "-lm":
> 
> cc -g -O3 -Wall -Wuninitialized -DINCLUDE_FTPLIB -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DOS_LINUX
> -fPIC -Wno-unused-function   -DHAVE_ZLIB -Iinclude -Idrivers -I../mxml -o
> linux/bin/mhttpd linux/lib/mhttpd.o linux/lib/mgd.o linux/lib/libmidas.a -lutil
> -lpthread -lz
> linux/lib/mhttpd.o(.text+0xe08f): In function `show_custom_gif':
> src/mhttpd.c:5058: undefined reference to `log'
> linux/lib/mhttpd.o(.text+0xe0a8):src/mhttpd.c:5058: undefined reference to `log'
> 

Strange. I tested it on Debian Linux 4.0r2 AMD64 with gcc 4.1.2, MIDAS SVN 4124. It worked fine.
Anyway, it can be fixed by addling "-lm" to the initial"LDFLAGS".

> The header of the makefile should contain a short description, the author(s), an
> $Id:$ tag for SVN, some explanation what "icc", "ifort" means, a note about the
> CFLAGS and a clear statement what can be modified by the user and why and what not.

OK. I will comment it in detail.