Oliver Graf <ograf(a)rhein-zeitung.de&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: No. Stephen Turnbull has built a Sparc Linux XEmacs, I believe. The likeliest cause is that a regexp is failing in configure. Maybe this one: dnl Straightforward machine determination case "$canonical" in sparc-*-* ) machine=sparc ;; try changing it sparc*-*-* and see if that helps. You may need to do some s & m tweaking, but it should work, I think. Be sure to send us patches when you get everything sorted out ... :-) -- 雨降って地固まる (Adversity builds character)