diff --git a/src/tools/jam/Jamfile b/src/tools/jam/Jamfile
index 8e5af83145..1e60c466b4 100644
--- a/src/tools/jam/Jamfile
+++ b/src/tools/jam/Jamfile
@@ -120,7 +120,11 @@ if $(VMS)
 
 # Need to link against -lnet
 if $(OS) = BEOS {
-	LINKLIBS += -lnet ;
+#	LINKLIBS += -lnet ;
+}
+
+if $(OS) = BEOS {
+	DEFINES += _ZETA_USING_DEPRECATED_API_=1 ;
 }
 
 #
diff --git a/src/tools/jam/Makefile b/src/tools/jam/Makefile
index ede8d22b71..a4167f24e2 100644
--- a/src/tools/jam/Makefile
+++ b/src/tools/jam/Makefile
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ HOST_SYSTEM=$(shell uname)
 
 # BeOS (R5 only, actually, but who cares)
 ifeq ($(HOST_SYSTEM), BeOS)
-	LINKLIBS = -lnet
+#	LINKLIBS = -lnet
 endif
 
 SOURCES = \
diff --git a/src/tools/jam/jamgram.c b/src/tools/jam/jamgram.c
index f59fff33a1..d3dfac1e38 100644
--- a/src/tools/jam/jamgram.c
+++ b/src/tools/jam/jamgram.c
@@ -350,8 +350,8 @@ static const short yycheck[] = {     0,
     16
 };
 /* -*-C-*-  Note some compilers choke on comments on `#line' lines.  */
-#line 3 "/etc/bison.simple"
-/* This file comes from bison-1.28.  */
+#line 3 "/bison.simple"
+/* This file comes from bison-.  */
 
 /* Skeleton output parser for bison,
    Copyright (C) 1984, 1989, 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ __yy_memcpy (char *to, char *from, unsigned int count)
 #endif
 #endif
 
-#line 217 "/etc/bison.simple"
+#line 217 "/bison.simple"
 
 /* The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be passed
    into yyparse.  The argument should have type void *.
@@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ case 73:
     break;}
 }
    /* the action file gets copied in in place of this dollarsign */
-#line 543 "/etc/bison.simple"
+#line 543 "/bison.simple"
 
   yyvsp -= yylen;
   yyssp -= yylen;