Hello again everyone.  Thanks for Vince for helping me track down the problem.    
    I haven't found it yet so I'm posting again.  This time I've put the   
   config.log, build.log and build.err files on a Google drive for everyone to   
   look at.  If you want to scratch your head for awhile please help your self.    
   You can find them at   
   https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bw9-YhFS6LagdlJyRmF1dU5KVm8&usp=sharing   
      
   This is a compile of 1.0.6.  If you look in the build.err file you will see a   
   lot of warnings for fread, memset, wright, read and so on.  They all give the   
   error of "declared with attribute warn_unused_result" so not sure if this is   
   critical or not.  I can't find any hard errors in either build files.  I tried   
   to get as many YES answers when doing the ./configure.  Some no's are to be   
   expected.  So if anyone can find what might be giving me the buffer overflow   
   errors when I run mbindex and mbout -stat that would be great.  If no one can   
   find the error I may have to try compiling it on a clean version of Linux    
   Mint.   
      
   Thanks everyone.   
      
   Stephen   
      
      
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