diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9c3c17127e0de5907170f374663745c5c68ca9f3..ba2aae7e9801a47eecf4adcaa762d8fb9f0a2084 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
  Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.3a [?]  [xx May? 1999]
 
+  *) New configuration variant "sco5-gcc".
+
   *) Updated some demos.
      [Sean O Riordain, Wade Scholine]
 
diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index 60b1167897ed1b5d2e9b63124a1626506fa588cc..12b25f1c53fece56dd8788fa9c296866a3e9e96e 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ my %table=(
 # SCO 5 - Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> says the -O breaks the
 # SCO cc.
 "sco5-cc",  "cc::(unknown):-lsocket:$x86_gcc_des ${x86_gcc_opts}:::", # des options?
+"sco5-gcc",  "gcc:-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer:(unknown):-lsocket:BN_LLONG $x86_gcc_des ${x86_gcc_opts}:::", # the SCO assembler doesn't seem to like our assembler files ...
 
 # Sinix/ReliantUNIX RM400
 # NOTE: The CDS++ Compiler up to V2.0Bsomething has the IRIX_CC_BUG optimizer problem. Better use -g  */