Adrian Aichner writes: basically followed you instructions from your previous post pressed the buttons in sequence was not sure it looked like it was doing the right thing until it crashed that is each button produced output to buffers included here youe cvs update interface works beautifuly buy the way so i wont bother including that buffer build-configure buffer build-configure output buffer build-make buffer build-make output buffer the only options i changed are these '(build-cvs-checkout-dir "xemacs-21.2") '(build-configure--site-prefixes nil) '(build-configure--site-runtime-libraries nil) '(build-configure--prefix "/usr/local/xemacs-beta") '(build-configure--with-gtk "no") '(build-configure--with-prefix "defaulted") '(build-configure--with-sound "defaulted") '(build-configure--srcdir "/usr/local/src/emacs/xemacs-21.2") '(build-cvs-checkout-parent-dir "/usr/local/src/emacs") '(build-configure--with-gnome "no") let me know if you need more info Peter