not building under Debian's unstable distribution...

A> async_timer_suppress_count > 0 I don't see this, also on Debian unstable (not updated in about 10 days though). The library Bogeyman of the Month is EsounD. Try configuring with --with-sound=none,native,nas You need the "none", otherwise ESD will be autodetected. I note that there are bad interactions between XF86 4.0.x and sound apps, I don't know if those are ESD-related but since ESD has long bollixed up the interrupts (this has affected XEmacs in the past, is incriminated in current XEmacs issues, and for quite some time hosed IrDA support as well).... -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."