I had inadvertently used a bash'ism here. This failed when I tried it on solaris today. Not sure if there is really a changelog associated with this. jeff --- patch-xemacs.sh.orig Mon May 18 22:47:48 1998 +++ patch-xemacs.sh Mon May 18 23:15:41 1998 ＠＠ -12,6 +12,11 ＠＠ # # Nick Holloway <Nick.Holloway(a)alfie.demon.co.uk&gt;, 2nd January 1995. # Modified for use with XEmacs - Jeff Miller <jmiller(a)smart.net&gt; 8 August 1997. +# +# changed "source $sourcedir/version.sh" to ". $sourcedir/version.sh" +# Using "source" was a bash'ism. +# Jeff Miller <jmiller(a)smart.net&gt; 18 May, 1998 + # This was originally patch-kernel, which comes with the linux kernel source. # Set directories from arguments, or use defaults. ＠＠ -19,7 +24,7 ＠＠ patchdir=${2-..} # set current VERSION, PATCHLEVEL, SUBLEVEL -source $sourcedir/version.sh +. $sourcedir/version.sh # for newer version of gnu patch POSIXLY_CORRECT=t