The main improvement here is a configure script based on Malcolm Purvis's new configure.ac (with contributions from SuSE). The regression test is in tests/autoconf/regressiontest.pl. Please see INSTALL for Malcolm's notes on the new script. Especially, the options now conform to the GNU --enable-feature --with-library convention, so many options have been renamed. It also explains how to use the regression test. (BTW, Malcolm, feel free to commit configure.ac improvements to the sjt-xft branch for the next few weeks if that's convenient for you.) Note that sjt-xft can be used to build a non-Xft XEmacs by using --with-xft=none, so you can use this branch to play around with configure even if you're not ready for Xft. With substantial unmerged activity from Ben recently, it is a little behind the times, but most of Ben's activity has been in docs. Mainline 21.5 was last merged into sjt-xft about a month ago; another merge will happen in the very near future. In XEmacs/Xft itself, little change; maybe over the next couple of weeks I'll have more time, or perhaps Aidan or Eric will. However - Verbosity of existing debug output has been dramatically reduced, but new fprintfs have been added. - A crash in strikeout faces has been fixed. - The abort when translating from Ichar to Unicode has been removed. - Building without Mule has been fixed and Works For Me in light testing. - A few minor bugs have been fixed, but you probably won't notice in among the scorpions and snakes that remain. Use "cvs checkout -r sjt-xft xemacs", or you can get the patch on XEmacs Patches. Enjoy! -- Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering University of Tsukuba http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Economics of Information Communication and Computation Systems Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory