diff --git a/bldpkg b/bldpkg
index 8670090..13bb281 100644
--- a/bldpkg
+++ b/bldpkg
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # Part of the SMLinux distribution
 # http://git.pktsurf.in/smlinux
 #
+# /bin/bldpkg version 0.1
 # Bash script to build SMLinux-specific packages
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2022-2023 PktSurf <smlinux@pktsurf.in>
@@ -133,7 +134,7 @@ fi
 # Function to validate the build file.
 validatebldfile() {
   local buildfile
-  buildfile=$1
+  buildfile="$1"
 
   if [[ ! -f $buildfile ]] ; then
     err "No build file to validate from!"
@@ -151,17 +152,6 @@ validatebldfile() {
   elif ! grep -E -q '^homepage="\(https|http||ftp)://' "$buildfile" ; then
     err "Invalid URL in the 'homepage' variable in the build file."
 
-  # Validate $download, first the URL type
-  #elif grep -E -q '^download=' "$buildfile" ; then
-  #  if ! grep -E -q '^download="\(http|https|ftp)://' "$buildfile" ; then
-  #    err "Invalid URL in the 'download' variable in the build file."
-  #  fi
-
-    # Then check for single quotes
-  #  if grep -E -q "^download='*'" "$buildfile" ; then
-  #    err "Single quotes disallowed in the 'download' variable in the build file"
-  #  fi
-
   # Validate $desc using bash shell's ability to count variable length
   elif [[ ${#desc} -gt 100 ]] ; then
     err "Package description should not exceed 100 characters in the build file."
@@ -252,7 +242,7 @@ elif [[ $OPTIND -gt 1 ]] ; then
       err "Original build file '$origbuildfile' does not exist!"
 
     elif [[ -n $setbuildfile ]] && [[ -f $setbuildfile ]] ; then
-      if [[ $origbuildfile = "$setbuildfile" ]] ; then
+      if [[ $origbuildfile = $setbuildfile ]] ; then
         err "Original build file and alternate build file are the same!"
       fi
 
@@ -275,7 +265,7 @@ elif [[ $OPTIND -gt 1 ]] ; then
     err "Build file '$setbuildfile' not found!"
 
   # If the above two conditions don't meet, get the presumed $buildfile value as a file and source it
-  elif [[ -f "$buildfile" ]] ; then
+  elif [[ -f $buildfile ]] ; then
     if ! validatebldfile "$buildfile" ; then
       err "'$buildfile' validation failed!"
     else
@@ -477,8 +467,8 @@ fi
 # declare a variable for the build summary.
 if [[ $usetmpfs = 1 ]] && [[ -n $tmpfsdir ]]; then
   if [[ ! -d $tmpfsdir ]] ||  ! touch "$tmpfsdir/.smlinuxtmpwritetest"  \
-    || [[ $(findmnt -no TARGET "$tmpfsdir") != "$tmpfsdir" ]] \
-    || [[ $(findmnt -no FSTYPE "$tmpfsdir") != "tmpfs" ]]; then
+    || [[ $(findmnt -no TARGET $tmpfsdir) != $tmpfsdir ]] \
+    || [[ $(findmnt -no FSTYPE $tmpfsdir) != tmpfs ]]; then
       tmpfscheckfailed=1
   fi
 
@@ -579,9 +569,9 @@ validatecompiler() {
 
   # Function called as: validatecompiler distcc $distccsympath $f
   if [[ $validatecompilers = 1 ]] ; then
-    compiler=$1
-    compilerpath=$2
-    maincompiler=$3
+    compiler="$1"
+    compilerpath="$2"
+    maincompiler="$3"
     randomnum=$(shuf -i 100-999 -n1)
 
     echo "Validating $compiler compiler... "
@@ -627,7 +617,7 @@ Kindly create it and create symlinks based on instructions in bldpkg.conf!"
   for f in gcc g++ cc c++ ; do 
     if [[ -e $distccsympath/$f ]] && [[ -L $distccsympath/$f ]]; then
       # We use "realpath" to follow the $distccsympath/$f symlink and act on the exit code.
-      if [[ $(realpath -e "$distccsympath/$f") != "$distccbinpath" ]] ; then
+      if [[ $(realpath -e $distccsympath/$f) != $distccbinpath ]] ; then
         err "'$distccsympath/$f' does not point to '$distccbinpath'. Kindly fix this!"
       fi
     else
@@ -636,7 +626,6 @@ Kindly create it and create symlinks based on instructions in bldpkg.conf!"
     fi
 
     validatecompiler distcc $distccsympath $f
-
   done
 
   # If distcc=0 is set in the package build file to disable distcc, remove the value of $distccsympath from 
@@ -651,7 +640,7 @@ Kindly create it and create symlinks based on instructions in bldpkg.conf!"
       warn "nc does not exist! Ignoring this..."
     else 
       # Remove the common options along with the slash and the numbers after it
-      hosts=$(echo "$DISTCC_HOSTS" | sed -e 's@/[a-z0-9]*@@g' -e 's@--randomize@@' -e 's@localhost@@' -e 's@,lzo@@g')
+      hosts=$(echo "$DISTCC_HOSTS" | sed -e 's@/[a-z0-9,]*@@g' -e 's@--randomize@@' -e 's@localhost@@')
       for host in ${hosts[@]} ; do
         # We only run distccd on TCP port 3632
         if ! /bin/nc -z -w 1 "$host" 3632 > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
@@ -676,7 +665,7 @@ if [[ $globalccache = 1 ]]; then
 Either ensure ccache is in your $PATH or disable this option in bldpkg.conf."
   fi
 
-  if [[ ! $(echo "$PATH" | grep "$ccachesympath") ]] ; then
+  if [[ ! $(echo $PATH | grep $ccachesympath) ]] ; then
     err "'"$ccachesympath"' directory not found in your env PATH"
   elif [[ ! -d $ccachesympath ]] ; then 
     err "'$ccachesympath' directory containing symlinks to ccache does not exist! 
@@ -686,7 +675,7 @@ Kindly create it and create symlinks based on instructions in bldpkg.conf."
   for f in gcc g++ cc c++ ; do 
     if [[ -e $ccachesympath/$f ]] && [[ -L $ccachesympath/$f ]]; then
       # We use "realpath" to follow the $ccachesympath/$f symlink and act on the exit code
-      if [[ $(realpath -e "$ccachesympath/$f") != "$ccachebinpath" ]] ; then
+      if [[ $(realpath -e $ccachesympath/$f) != $ccachebinpath ]] ; then
         err "'$ccachesympath/$f' does not point to '$ccachebinpath'. Kindly fix this!"
       fi
     else
@@ -727,7 +716,10 @@ rustc-wrapper = "/bin/sccache"'
   RUSTC_WRAPPER="$sccachebinpath"
   export RUSTC_WRAPPER
 
-  /bin/sccache --start-server
+  # Check whether sccache is running on TCP port 4226 via nc
+  if ! nc -z -w 1 localhost 4226 > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+    /bin/sccache --start-server
+  fi
 fi
 
 # Apply CPU-specific compiler variables defined inside bldpkg.conf
@@ -736,9 +728,16 @@ fi
 # noarch is set inside initfs, pkgtools, GTK themes and some other stuff.
 
 # If $arch has not been exported by autobuild or not set in the individual build files that have
-# arch=noarch, we set our own $HOSTTYPE is only set in the bash shell.
+# arch=noarch, we set our own. $HOSTTYPE is only set in the bash shell.
 [[ -z $arch ]] && arch="$HOSTTYPE"
 
+# Validate declared compiler variables
+if [[ -z $CC ]] || [[ -z $CXX ]] ; then
+  err "CC / CXX variables not set in bldpkg.conf!"
+else
+  export CC CXX
+fi
+
 if [[ $arch = noarch ]]; then
   CFLAGS=""
   export CFLAGS
@@ -805,7 +804,7 @@ compileonlyfor() {
   archname="$(uname -m)"
   archargument="$1"
 
-  if [[ $archname != "$archargument" ]]; then
+  if [[ $archname != $archargument ]]; then
     echo ""
     echo "[INFO]'$app' not supported on '$archname' and hence not not being built. Exiting."
     exit 0
@@ -849,7 +848,7 @@ fixbuilddirpermissions() {
 # Function to calculate elapsed build time. runtime takes the $SECONDS variable as an argument. $SECONDS is an
 # environment variable set by bash to show the number of whole seconds the shell has been running.
 runtime() {
-  timer=$1
+  timer="$1"
   [[ -z $timer ]] && return 1
 
   local day=$(( timer / 86400 ))
@@ -936,13 +935,15 @@ Please fix the build options and ensure the /lib64 is not created."
   fi
    
   # Check if /usr and /sbin were created inside staging directory $pkg 
-  # of its build file
-  for directory in usr sbin ; do
-    if [[ -d $pkg/$directory ]] ; then
-      err "'$app' has '$directory' directory within the staging directory which is a symlink to /bin on SMLinux.
+  # of its build file. Ignore their existence if $ignoreusr is set to 1 in the pkg build file
+  if [[ -z $ignoreusr ]] ; then
+    for directory in usr sbin ; do
+      if [[ -d $pkg/$directory ]] ; then
+        err "'$app' has '$directory' directory within the staging directory which is a symlink to /bin on SMLinux.
 Please fix the build options and ensure '$directory' is not created"
-    fi
-  done
+      fi
+    done
+  fi
 
   info "Copying post-install files..."
 
@@ -966,7 +967,7 @@ EOF
   fi
 
   # Compress and link manpages
-  if [[ -d "$pkg/share/man" ]]; then
+  if [[ -d $pkg/share/man ]]; then
     info "Compressing and linking man pages..."
     ( cd "$pkg/share/man"
       for manpagedir in $(find . -type d -name "man*") ; do
@@ -992,46 +993,6 @@ EOF
     install -Dm 644 "$srcdir/$buildfile" "$pkgdocs/$app.SMBuild"
   fi
 
-
-  # We don't want multiple directories for documentation. Detect if $pkg/share/doc/<app-name> was created. 
-  # If it has been created, move its contents into $pkgdocs and discard the old doc directory.
-  if [[ -d "$pkg/share/doc/$app" ]] ; then
-    info "Found share/doc/$app documentation directory.
-Moving its contents into share/doc/$app-$version/"
-    mv "$pkg/share/doc/$app/"* "$pkgdocs"/
-    rmdir "$pkg/share/doc/$app"
-  fi
-
-  # We'd like pkgconfig files to only go into /lib; some packages have other ideas. 
-  if [[ -d $pkg/share/pkgconfig ]] ; then
-    warn "Moving /share/pkgconfig directory created by '$app' into /lib"
-    ( 
-      cd $pkg
-      mkdir -p lib/pkgconfig
-      mv share/pkgconfig/* lib/pkgconfig/
-      rmdir share/pkgconfig
-    )
-  fi
-
-  # Normally we'd expect some debug symbols in the newly-produced binaries. But that isn't always the
-  # case with some packages whose build systems strip objects before hand
-  if [[ $debug = 1 ]] ; then
-    for file in \
-    $( find "$pkg" -type f ) 
-    do
-      file -m /etc/file/magic/elf "$file" | \
-        grep -E "executable|shared object" | \
-        grep ", stripped" | cut -d: -f1 >> "$pkg/install/package.$app.debugfailedfilenames"
-    done
-
-    debugfilecount=$(wc -l < "$pkg/install/package.$app.debugfailedfilenames")
-    if [[ $debugfilecount -ge 1 ]]; then
-      debugwarning=1
-    else 
-      rm "$pkg/install/package.$app.debugfailedfilenames"
-    fi
-  fi
-  
   # Now strip the binaries and shared libraries. --strip-unneeded is unnecessary for binutils 2.34+
   if [[ -z $debug ]] && [[ $debug != 1 ]]; then
     find "$pkg" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -m /etc/file/magic/elf | \
@@ -1177,7 +1138,7 @@ prepbuildoutput() {
     # Stick to 8/16 colours, those are supported on most terminals
     if [[ $colours = 1 ]]; then
       colourscheck=$(tput colors 2>/dev/null)
-      if [[ "$?" = 0 ]] && [[ $colourscheck -gt 2 ]] ; then
+      if [[ $? = 0 ]] && [[ $colourscheck -gt 2 ]] ; then
         # Red when the build fails
         colourr=$(printf '\e[41m')
         # Yellow when the build is interrupted
@@ -1239,10 +1200,8 @@ prepbuildoutput() {
 
 
     # Determine the build type
-    if [[ $debug = 1 ]] && [[ -z $debugwarning ]] ; then
+    if [[ $debug = 1 ]] ; then
       bldtype="*DEBUG* build"
-    elif [[ $debug = 1 ]] && [[ $debugwarning = 1 ]]; then
-      bldtype="*DEBUG* build[WARNING]"
     else
       bldtype="General build, no debug symbols"
     fi
@@ -1348,6 +1307,7 @@ EOF
 
 }
 
+# Prepare a nice HTML file that can be used to view status of the build process from a web browser
 prephtmloutput() {
   if [[ $htmloutput = 1 ]] ; then
     if [[ $pkgstatus = 0 ]] ; then
@@ -1367,7 +1327,6 @@ EOF
 }
 
 promptuser() {
-  
   # Extract package at the end of a build if autoextract is set to 1
   if [[ $autoextract = 1 ]] && [[ -z $autobuild ]] && [[ -n $newpkglocation ]] ; then
     info "Extracting package installer inside $srcdir/test..."
@@ -1409,7 +1368,7 @@ promptuser() {
 # This function will set the interrupt variable so prepbuildoutput can output the right build status 
 # on receiving ctrl-c from the user during a manual build.
 interruptoutput() {
-  echo ""
+  echo
   info "Caught Keyboard Interrupt"
   wasinterrupted="1"