Hi, I have built XEmacs 21.2.23 on Solaris 2.5.1 with following options. ********************************************************************** In XEmacs 21.2 (beta23) "Hebe" [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1) of Tue Dec 14 1999 on urvashi configured using `configure --prefix=/net/urvashi/usr1/sdeshmuk/gnu/XEmacs/beta/xemacs-21.2.23 --with-xpm=yes --with-workshop=yes --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib/X11/' ********************************************************************** I have noticed that 21.2.8 onwards, I was never able to "install" the xemacs. It always fails while testing lisp shadows as, ********************************************************************** Loading very-early-lisp... Loading /usr1/sdeshmuk/gnu/XEmacs/beta/xemacs-21.2.23/lisp/dumped-lisp.el... Loading /users/sdeshmuk/gnu/XEmacs/beta/xemacs-21.2.23/lisp/backquote.elc... Loading /users/sdeshmuk/gnu/XEmacs/beta/xemacs-21.2.23/lisp/bytecomp-runtime.elc... Loading /users/sdeshmuk/gnu/XEmacs/beta/xemacs-21.2.23/lisp/find-paths.elc... Loading /users/sdeshmuk/gnu/XEmacs/beta/xemacs-21.2.23/lisp/packages.elc... Loading /users/sdeshmuk/gnu/XEmacs/beta/xemacs-21.2.23/lisp/setup-paths.elc... Loading /users/sdeshmuk/gnu/XEmacs/beta/xemacs-21.2.23/lisp/dump-paths.elc... Load file subr: not found Fatal error during load, aborting *** Error code 1 (ignored) Testing for Lisp shadows ... sh: ./xemacs: not found *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xemacs' Current working directory /usr1/sdeshmuk/gnu/XEmacs/beta/xemacs-21.2.23/src *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-arch-dep' ********************************************************************** Also, the image mode does not load gif or jpeg files correctly. and in 21.2.23, whenever I load a directory dired mode, xemacs temporarily hangs. If I quit with C-g and load again, it works fine. Regards, Sanjeev.