Martin, --exec-prefix worked (I can build on SunOS-5.5 and 4.1 and share the shareable files), but it's not my preferred solution. Michael Sperber, please take a look at the --datadir problem with 21.2 at your earliest possible convenience. Thanks, vin Vin> I routinely build XEmacs here at work on SunOS-4.1.4 and SunOS-5.5 in Vin> order to make sure no major breakage occurs between releases. I do Vin> not have sufficient time to spend major hours on this, but it provides Vin> a simple sanity check on 21.1 and 21.2 development status. Vin> Last week I decided it would be nice to share the Vin> architecture-independent data directories between the 4.1 and 5.5 Vin> builds. I have not been able to get this to work under 21.2 from CVS. Vin> In order to accomplish this, I'm specifying --datadir to configure; Vin> after doing this, 'make beta' and 'make check' work fine, but 'make Vin> install' fails. Here's how: MB> The canonical way to do this is to do MB> configure --prefix=$XEMACS_INSTALLDIR --exec-prefix=$XEMACS_INSTALLDIR/$ARCH MB> I did this many times back when I was in a corporate environment, MB> although not recently. MB> You can then either `make install' twice or make install once and then MB> `make install-arch-dep' for subsequent architectures. MB> This is not to say that what you're doing shouldn't work. Rewriting MB> install is one of the projects on my list. But I believe it is a MB> project, not just a bugfix. -- In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. T.S. Eliot [URL: http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~ccm/prufrock.html]