diff --git a/package/base/bison/bison.conf b/package/base/bison/bison.conf
index 4b505444f..c2003ba55 100644
--- a/package/base/bison/bison.conf
+++ b/package/base/bison/bison.conf
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@
 
 
 make_yacc() {
-	echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nbison -y "$@"' > $root/usr/bin/yacc
-	chmod +x $root/usr/bin/yacc
+	echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nbison -y "$@"' > $instroot/usr/bin/yacc
+	chmod +x $instroot/usr/bin/yacc
 }
 
-if [ "$stagelevel" -le 1 ]; then
-	makeopt="datadir=${datadir#$root}"
+if [ $stagelevel -le 2 ]; then
+	makeopt="datadir=${datadir#$instroot}"
 	premake="sed -i 's, examples , ,' Makefile"
 fi
 
diff --git a/package/base/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.conf b/package/base/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.conf
index 85788008c..0c9f79a22 100644
--- a/package/base/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.conf
+++ b/package/base/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.conf
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@
 
 libdir="$root/$multilib"
 
-var_append extraconfopt " "  '--libdir=$libdir --with-root-prefix=$instroot/'
-var_append extraconfopt " "  'enable-fsck --enable-elf-shlibs --disable-evms'
+var_append extraconfopt " " '--with-root-prefix=$instroot/'
+var_append extraconfopt " " '--enable-fsck --enable-elf-shlibs --disable-evms'
+# var_append extraconfopt " " '--with-cc="$CC" --with-linker="$LD"'
 
 if [ "$ROCKCFG_DIETLIBC_e2fsprogs" == "1" ] ; then
 	var_append extraconfopt " " "--with-diet-libc"
@@ -32,10 +33,14 @@ if [ "$ROCKCFG_DIETLIBC_e2fsprogs" == "1" ] ; then
 		var_append extraconfopt " " "--enable-dynamic-e2fsck"
 fi	
 
+hook_add premake 3 "chmod -v 0755 configure ; \
+	cp -v configure{,.orig} ; \
+	sed -e \"/libdir=.*\/lib/s@/lib@/$multilib@g\" configure.orig > configure"
+
 # if you are brave, try without this and fix it...
 LD="$CC"
 
-# somehow "make install" seems not to exectue install-libs, which
+# somehow "make install" seems not to execute install-libs, which
 # is needed to get the headers installed (and static libraries also)
 var_append makeinstopt ' ' "install-libs"
 postinstall="install -m 0644 ${confdir}/e2fsck.conf $sysconfdir"
diff --git a/package/base/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.desc b/package/base/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.desc
index e85b1c5c1..08ea8e9f9 100644
--- a/package/base/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.desc
+++ b/package/base/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.desc
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 [L] GPL LGPL
 [S] Stable
 [V] 1.40.2
-[P] X --2--5---9 101.200
+[P] X --X--5---9 101.200
 
 [D] 3814447537 e2fsprogs-1.40.2.tar.gz http://download.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/
 
diff --git a/package/base/flex/flex.conf b/package/base/flex/flex.conf
index 32709820f..f8206b316 100644
--- a/package/base/flex/flex.conf
+++ b/package/base/flex/flex.conf
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
 
 
 pkg_flex_postmake() {
-	echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec flex -l "$@"' > $root/usr/bin/lex
-	chmod +x $root/usr/bin/lex
+	echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec flex -l "$@"' > $instroot/usr/bin/lex
+	chmod +x $instroot/usr/bin/lex
 
 }