>>>> "BAW" == <bwarsaw(a)python.org>
writes:
BAW> Very Strange Things are Going On. I bet It is the Law of
BAW> Conservation of Glitchy Universal Secret Revelation. Only
BAW> one person in the world is allowed to view This Mysterious
BAW> and Enlightening Phenomenon at a time. Either you were
BAW> powerful enough to decipher Its Meanings and aren't telling
BAW> us (I know we must discover Them on our own), or you too
BAW> failed to grasp Its Universal Message. Either way, It's
BAW> moved on to attempt another Conversion. I admit intellectual
BAW> defeat now, so can The Glitch please go Visit someone else
BAW> for a while?
See? Invoke the name of the Glitch Witch and ye shall be redeemed.
I figure it out (for me, at least ;).
The glitchy machine had the openmotif-devel-2.2.2-5 package installed,
which caused XEmacs's configure to link against libXm.so and use
"Motif dialog boxes", "Motif native widgets", and "Motif to
provide
XIM Support". Found by comparing ldd output against the two executables.
On the non-glitchy box, this package wasn't installed so it just uses
the Lucid widgets and "raw Xlib" for XIM.
Removed the rpm (nothing else depended on it), recompile, and so long
Wicked Glitch of the East (or perhaps West for Steve? ;).
I'm willing to chalk this up as a bug in the openmotif-devel package
and be done with it, but if anybody has more motifation <wink> they
may want to at least verify and perhaps pursue this more with the
openmotif developers.
-Barry