[Earth to Martin's ISP, are you unfucked yet?] Gunnar Evermann <Gunnar.Evermann(a)nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ... This is wrong, at least in the case of Linux. I am having great difficulty finding access to a properly configured HP machine which perhaps speaks for itself. Unfortunately, xmkmf is delivered broken on many systems. Playing devil's advocate, the test has got to be more comprehensive than that. *I* have $OPENWINHOME set in my Linux environment, but there is nothing in $OPENWINHOME/lib that XEmacs needs to link to. On the gripping hand, it would be potentially less destructive adding that directory than something like /usr/local. It's also somewhat dubious to poke too deeply into the builder's environment on a multiuser system/network. There are many good reasons for wishing to link against the vendor-supplied libraries. I wouldn't be.