Hello, don't know if it matters but since a few days I can't build the latest development branch of xemacs (see output of make later) on SPARC. The error is caused by the lisp variable purify-flag in loadup.el which is defined although I neither specified --with-purify nor --with-quantify as configure argument. The following form in loadup.el gets evaluated around line 176: (when purify-flag (message "Finding pointers to doc strings...") (Snarf-documentation "DOC") (message "Finding pointers to doc strings...done") (Verify-documentation)) I figured out that the following statement in emacs.c around line 852 is the cause (PDUMP is undefined): purify_flag = 0; #ifdef PDUMP if (restart) initialized = 1; else { initialized = pdump_load (); purify_flag = !initialized; } #else if (!initialized) purify_flag = 1 /* 0 */; #endif ^^^ If I use zero as initializer to purify_flag, xemacs compiles fine. Here is what "make" says: ----- Loading very-early-lisp... Loading /net/inss1/tools/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-CVS/lisp/dumped-lisp.el... Loading /net/inss1/tools/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-CVS/lisp/backquote.elc... Loading /net/inss1/tools/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-CVS/lisp/bytecomp-runtime.elc... Loading /net/inss1/tools/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-CVS/lisp/find-paths.elc... Loading /net/inss1/tools/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-CVS/lisp/tty-init.elc... Loading /net/inss1/tools/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-CVS/lisp/fontl-hooks.elc... Loading /net/inss1/tools/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-CVS/lisp/auto-show.elc... Loading /net/inss1/tools/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-CVS/lisp/loadhist.elc... Loading /net/inss1/tools/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-CVS/lisp/loaddefs.elc... Loading site-load... Finding pointers to doc strings... xemacs exiting.Opening doc string file: No such file or directory, ../lib-src/DOC make[1]: [xemacs] Error 255 (ignored) Testing for Lisp shadows ... make[1]: ./xemacs: Command not found make[1]: *** [xemacs] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory `/net/inss1/tools/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-CVS/src' make: *** [src] Error 2 ----- end of output ----- Greetings, Uli -- Dipl.-Ing. U.Kaage Tel. ++49/(0)721/608-6273 Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik Fax. ++49/(0)721/608-6071 Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH) kaage(a)int.uni-karlsruhe.de 76128 Karlsruhe Home Page und PGP-Key: http://www-int.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kaage/ --