diff --git a/libs/freetdm/mod_freetdm/mod_freetdm.c b/libs/freetdm/mod_freetdm/mod_freetdm.c
index c0fdaa6ecc..78874de059 100755
--- a/libs/freetdm/mod_freetdm/mod_freetdm.c
+++ b/libs/freetdm/mod_freetdm/mod_freetdm.c
@@ -1055,28 +1055,18 @@ switch_io_routines_t freetdm_io_routines = {
 static const char* channel_get_variable(switch_core_session_t *session, switch_event_t *var_event, const char *variable_name)
 {
        const char *variable = NULL;
-
        if (var_event) {
                if ((variable = switch_event_get_header(var_event, variable_name))) {
                        return variable;
                }
        }
+
        if (session) {
                switch_channel_t *channel = switch_core_session_get_channel(session);
                if ((variable = switch_channel_get_variable(channel, variable_name))) {
                        return variable;
                }
        }
-
-
-	   // This is unsafe, I don't see anywhere in the whole code where this is called with NULL session anyway.
-	   // There is a new switch_core_get_variable_dup that will strdup it for you and then you must free it.
-	   // That messes up the abstraction completely so I am just commenting it out for you.....
-	   /*
-       if ((variable = switch_core_get_variable(variable_name))) {
-               return variable;
-       }
-	   */
        return NULL;
 }
 
diff --git a/libs/freetdm/src/ftdm_io.c b/libs/freetdm/src/ftdm_io.c
index 1e282d1138..bd4e896dad 100644
--- a/libs/freetdm/src/ftdm_io.c
+++ b/libs/freetdm/src/ftdm_io.c
@@ -3588,7 +3588,7 @@ static FIO_READ_FUNCTION(ftdm_raw_read)
 }
 
 /* This function takes care of automatically generating DTMF or FSK tones when needed */
-static ftdm_status_t handle_tone_generation(ftdm_channel_t *ftdmchan, ftdm_size_t datalen)
+static ftdm_status_t handle_tone_generation(ftdm_channel_t *ftdmchan)
 {
 	/*
 	 * datalen: size in bytes of the chunk of data the user requested to read (this function 
@@ -3650,9 +3650,7 @@ static ftdm_status_t handle_tone_generation(ftdm_channel_t *ftdmchan, ftdm_size_
 	/* if we picked a buffer, time to read from it and write the linear data to the device */
 	if (buffer) {
 		uint8_t auxbuf[1024];
-		/* we initialize dlen to datalen, which is the size in bytes the 
-		 * user wants to read (typically chunks of 160 bytes, 20ms G.711) */
-		ftdm_size_t dlen = datalen;
+		ftdm_size_t dlen = ftdmchan->packet_len;
 		ftdm_size_t len, br, max = sizeof(auxbuf);
 		
 		/* if the codec is not linear, then data is really twice as much cuz
@@ -3662,10 +3660,10 @@ static ftdm_status_t handle_tone_generation(ftdm_channel_t *ftdmchan, ftdm_size_
 		}
 
 		/* we do not expect the user chunks to be bigger than auxbuf */
-		ftdm_assert(dlen <= sizeof(auxbuf), "Unexpected size for user data chunk size\n");
+		ftdm_assert((dlen <= sizeof(auxbuf)), "Unexpected size for user data chunk size\n");
 
 		/* dblen is the size in use for dtmf_buffer or fsk_buffer, and dlen is the size
-		 * of the read chunks of the user, we pick the smaller one */
+		 * of the io chunks to write, we pick the smaller one */
 		len = dblen > dlen ? dlen : dblen;
 
 		/* we can't read more than the size of our auxiliary buffer */
@@ -3770,7 +3768,7 @@ FT_DECLARE(ftdm_status_t) ftdm_channel_read(ftdm_channel_t *ftdmchan, void *data
 			rdata[i] = ftdmchan->rxgain_table[rdata[i]];
 		}
 	}
-	handle_tone_generation(ftdmchan, *datalen);
+	handle_tone_generation(ftdmchan);
 
 	if (ftdm_test_flag(ftdmchan, FTDM_CHANNEL_TRANSCODE) && ftdmchan->effective_codec != ftdmchan->native_codec) {
 		if (ftdmchan->native_codec == FTDM_CODEC_ULAW && ftdmchan->effective_codec == FTDM_CODEC_SLIN) {
diff --git a/libs/iksemel/configure.ac b/libs/iksemel/configure.ac
index 49d8621777..403725a80d 100644
--- a/libs/iksemel/configure.ac
+++ b/libs/iksemel/configure.ac
@@ -83,12 +83,12 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(64,
 
 if test "x${ax_cv_c_compiler_vendor}"  =  "xsun" ; then
     if test "${enable_64}" = "yes"; then
-        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -xc99=all -mt -m64 -lgpg-error"
-        CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -xc99=all -mt -m64 -lgpg-error"
+        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mt -m64 -lgpg-error"
+        CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -mt -m64 -lgpg-error"
 	SUNFLAGS="-xc99=all -mt -m64 -lgpg-error"
     else 
-	CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -xc99=all -mt -lgpg-error"
-	CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -xc99=all -mt -lgpg-error"
+	CFLAGS="$CFLAGS  -mt -lgpg-error"
+	CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -mt -lgpg-error"
 	SUNFLAGS="-xc99=all -mt -lgpg-error"
     fi
 fi