Re: configuration failed.

Stephen> Yeah, this is a bug in PPC gcc, which doesn't understand the -z flag Stephen> for some reason. In this case I think that the real problem is that you're passing "-b i486-linuxaout" to the test. I don't think that there are many X86 cross-compilers found on PPC machines :-) The relevant code from configure.in is: dnl -lXt and -lX11 are required dnl Some broken systems require the magic "-b i486-linuxaout" flag AC_CHECK_LIB(X11, XOpenDisplay, have_lib_x11=yes) if test "$have_lib_x11" != "yes"; then AC_CHECK_LIB(X11, XGetFontProperty, ld_switch_x_site="-b i486-linuxaout $ld_switch_x_site", [AC_MSG_ERROR([Unable to find X11 libraries.])], -b i486-linuxaout) fi libs_x="-lX11" test "$extra_verbose" = "yes" && echo " Setting libs_x to \"-lX11\"" Stephen> Probably we should force use of ld directly on that platform. I don't think that's necessary. I've has no problems building bleeding edge XEmacs with "configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc3-world --with-gnome" on a Mac for months using gcc 2.95 and 3.0.4. Malcolm