diff --git a/site_ansto/Makefile b/site_ansto/Makefile
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 6da99396..51d68603
--- a/site_ansto/Makefile
+++ b/site_ansto/Makefile
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 # Markus Zolliker, March 2003
 #==========================================================================
 
+.PHONY: sct
+
 default: all
 
 # ANSTO rules and variables
@@ -16,7 +18,7 @@ PSI_LIBS =  \
        -ldl -lz  -lm  -lc $(LIB_MXML) $(LIB_JSON)
 CC       = gcc
 INCFLAGS = -Ihardsup  -I.. $(INC_HDF5) $(INC_TCL8)
-# NOTE -std=gnu99 adds c99 support with gnu extensions, it eliminates implicit function warnings 
+# NOTE -std=gnu99 adds c99 support with gnu extensions, it eliminates implicit function warnings
 # for c99 functions like roundf.  We don't use -std=c99 because it generates compiler errors in
 # code modules that use the timeval struct without including sys/time.h, c99 also generates
 # implicit function declaration warnings on string functions like strdup.
@@ -25,7 +27,9 @@ INCFLAGS = -Ihardsup  -I.. $(INC_HDF5) $(INC_TCL8)
 # may be in different locations. This code tries to find the include files and
 # libraries required in descending order of preference.
 
-libsearch =  $(wildcard /usr/lib*/lib$(1).so /usr/lib*/lib$(1).so.? /usr/lib*/lib$(1).so.??* /usr/lib*/lib$(1).a)
+libsearcha =  $(wildcard /usr/lib*/lib$(1).a)
+libsearchso =  $(wildcard /usr/lib*/lib$(1).so /usr/lib*/lib$(1).so.? /usr/lib*/lib$(1).so.??*)
+libsearch =  $(firstword $(call libsearcha,$(1)) $(call libsearchso,$(1)))
 libsearch1 =  $(firstword $(call libsearch,$(1)))
 incsearch =  $(wildcard /usr/include/$(1) /usr/local/include/$(1))
 incsearch1 =  $(firstword $(call incsearch,$(1)))
@@ -41,7 +45,7 @@ $(foreach myinc,$(myincs),$(info incsearch1($(myinc)) = $(call incsearch1,$(myin
 endif
 
 # TCL 8.5 or 8.4
-LIB_TCL8 = $(firstword $(call libsearch1,tcl8.5) $(call libsearch1,tcl8.4))
+LIB_TCL8 = $(firstword $(call libsearchso,tcl8.5) $(call libsearchso,tcl8.4))
 INC_TCL8 = $(firstword $(call incsearch1,tcl.h) $(call incsearch1,tcl8.5/tcl.h) $(call incsearch1,tcl8.4/tcl.h))
 
 ifeq (,$(LIB_TCL8))
@@ -123,7 +127,7 @@ SITEHARDSUP = hardsup/libhlib.a
 HARDSUPDIR = $(SITEDIR)/hardsup
 SUBLIBS = libansto.a hardsup/libhlib.a $(PSI_SLIBS) libansto.a hardsup/libhlib.a $(PSI_LIBS)
 
-.SUFFIXES: 
+.SUFFIXES:
 .SUFFIXES: .c .o .f
 
 GHTTP_LIBS = $(LIB_HTTP)
@@ -154,7 +158,9 @@ OBJ= site_ansto.o anstoutil.o\
     beamstopaction.o action.o \
     tclClock.o tclDate.o tclUnixTime.o
 
-all: config libsics libansto.a libhardsup
+all: | config libsics libhardsup SICServer
+
+SICServer:  ../SICSmain.o libansto.a hardsup/libhlib.a ../libsics.a ../matrix/libmatrix.a | config libsics libhardsup
 	$(CC) -g -o SICServer  ../SICSmain.o $(SUBLIBS) $(GHTTP_LIBS)
 
 config: