diff --git a/Formula/dmd.rb b/Formula/dmd.rb
index 0ce8991e30..2e287f97d9 100644
--- a/Formula/dmd.rb
+++ b/Formula/dmd.rb
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ url='http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.043.zip'
 md5='6c83b7296cb84090a9ebc11ab0fb94a2'
 
 Formula.new(url, md5).brew do |prefix|
+  h1 "make"
   prefix.mkpath
   FileUtils.cp_r 'osx/bin', prefix
   FileUtils.cp_r 'osx/lib', prefix
diff --git a/Formula/git.rb b/Formula/git.rb
index 3d1bd1a199..e0ec8d34d6 100644
--- a/Formula/git.rb
+++ b/Formula/git.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ url='http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.3.1.tar.bz2'
 md5='c1f4aab741359c29f0fbf28563ac7387'
 
 Formula.new(url, md5).brew do |prefix|
-  `./configure --disable-debug --prefix="#{prefix}"`
-  `make`
-  `make install`
+  system "./configure --disable-debug --prefix='#{prefix}'"
+  system "make"
+  system "make install"
 end
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diff --git a/Formula/grc.rb b/Formula/grc.rb
index f1518fc28d..f122d3c4d9 100644
--- a/Formula/grc.rb
+++ b/Formula/grc.rb
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ url='http://korpus.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/grc/grc_1.1.tar.gz'
 md5='eeb612aba2fff14cbaf1f3bec7e1eb60'
 
 Formula.new(url, md5).brew do |prefix|
+  h1 "make"  
   #TODO we should deprefixify since it's python and thus possible
   inreplace 'grc', '/etc', prefix+'/etc'
   inreplace 'grc.1', '/etc', prefix+'/etc'
@@ -57,14 +58,11 @@ Formula.new(url, md5).brew do |prefix|
   `cp -fv grc.conf #{prefix}/etc`
   `cp -fv grc.1 grcat.1 #{prefix}/share/man/man1`
 
-  puts <<-sput
-We suggest you add this to your .profile in order to make grc work! :P
-
-#{profile_string.strip}
-
-We can do this for you:
+  <<-nruter
+grc won't work as is. One option is to add some aliases to your ~/.profile 
+file. Homebrew can do that for you, just execute this command:
 
     ruby #{$0} --profile >> ~/.profile
 
-sput
+nruter
 end
diff --git a/Formula/mad.rb b/Formula/mad.rb
index 0cd7bad0fe..ba11fe33c6 100644
--- a/Formula/mad.rb
+++ b/Formula/mad.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ url='http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mad/libmad-0.15.1b.tar.gz'
 md5='1be543bc30c56fb6bea1d7bf6a64e66c'
 
 Formula.new(url, md5).brew do |prefix|
-  `./configure --disable-debugging --enable-fpm=intel --prefix="#{prefix}"`
-  `make`
-  `make install`
+  system "./configure --disable-debugging --enable-fpm=intel --prefix='#{prefix}'"
+  system "make"
+  system "make install"
 end
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diff --git a/Formula/wget.rb b/Formula/wget.rb
index 1c6ee85172..0f5a023627 100644
--- a/Formula/wget.rb
+++ b/Formula/wget.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ url='http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.11.4.tar.bz2'
 md5='f5076a8c2ec2b7f334cb6e3059820f9c'
 
 Formula.new(url, md5).brew do |prefix|
-  `./configure --disable-debug --prefix="#{prefix}"`
-  `make`
-  `make install`
+  system "./configure --disable-debug --prefix='#{prefix}'"
+  system "make"
+  system "make install"
 end
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