SL> Guido Van Hoecke <Guido.Van_Hoecke(a)alcatel.be&gt; writes in SL> xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: SL> ... SL> Urgh. `make beta' isn't supposed to be needed now with the slimmed SL> down core. The fact that it makes a difference is a bug in XEmacs. SL> This comes from a very dubious block of code: SL> # fuckin' sysv, man... SL> if [ "`uname -r | sed 's/[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).*/\1/'`" -gt 4 ]; then SL> echon() SL> { SL> /bin/echo $* '\c' SL> } SL> else SL> echon() SL> { SL> echo -n $* SL> } SL> fi SL> What does `uname -r' return on cygwin? The script appears to be cd d:\ e:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin\uname.exe Compilation started at Fri Mar 12 17:36:39 1999 CYGWIN_NT-4.0 Compilation finished at Fri Mar 12 17:36:39 SL> mistaking you for a System V-oid system. SL> Is there any system we currently support that requires that code? -- Adrian Aichner Teradyne GmbH, European Design Center Integra Test Division Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 (What is a Fax?) D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail adrian.aichner(a)teradyne.com