beta configure options

I greatly appreciate the suggestions people sent to help me get the XEmacs 21.5 beta (horseradish) working on my new iMac after a long absence from fiddling with such things. XEmacs is such a gigantic thing that whenever I've moved to a new version it takes about a week for all the pieces to stop rolling. Most everything works fine, but it's not perfect. It's probably best for me to address remaining issues one at a time. My first questions have to do with configure options. This is where things stand. o I use a directory ~/xemacs to build and stage. o Beneath that I extracted xemacs-21.5.33 and xemacs-packages (from the sumo). - I know that xemacs-packages ultimately goes elsewhere. (See below.) o I can build horseradish if I configure using --with-mule, but not if I *don't* use --with-mule. - Is this an error? (I think someone suggested it might be.) - I don't actually use MULE (to my knowledge!) I've known about it since its existence but paid little attention. That's all about foreign character sets, right? - Don't I need another bundle of elisp files to actually use that? - I assume xemacs will continue to work without it, as long as I don't try to do anything MULEish? (Like type in Japanese, which I would be really hard, given that I wouldn't even know how to sneeze in Japanese.) o Someone (Raymond?) mentioned --with-xft. What's that? Do I need it? I've read the configure --help and still can't answer that question. I do have X11. Help says I also need Xft, Xrender, freetype, and fontconfig. How do I know if I have those? Among my remaining problems are inconsistencies with fonts and like. o I was able to install with no problems using sudo make install. It put stuff in /usr/local (in bin, lib, and share). (Yes, you veterans all know this. I'm just reporting that it does what it's supposed to. I have no desire to do anything unconventional at this stage. Bear with me.) o I unwound the packages sumo in /usr/local/share/xemacs, i.e., they're all now in /usr/local/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages and directories below. This seems to have been the right thing. Other questions will follow. -- Lynn David Newton Columbus, Ohio neologisticsediting.com lynndavidnewton.com _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta