Thanks a lot jggimi!
I understand now, at least better how things work.
I kinda had a secret agenda to be able to get LCDproc working in OpenBSD but since I was already running it on **other** platforms I was already signed up to the mailling list meaning that a quick question as to why the software wasn't compiling got me the response that I needed to use the CVS version.
Now all is fine and I have managed to compile my first piece of software without errors on OpenBSD.
Many thanks for the support.
Still a loooooong way to go though as it's a steep learning curve!