I have met very few open source project developers who would not
appreciate an email like this:

"Hey, I changed seven lines of code in your program and now it
compiles on five different architectures without modification,
including the one you use.  Here's a patch:
<patch>
...
</patch>
"

So since both of you seem to have problems with all kinds of projects,
(operating systems and individual programs), why don't you make it
more public knowledge and fix some of the stuff.

--=20
_Matt