$ uname -a OSF1 duh V4.0 878 alpha $ ulimit -s 8192 $ cc -V DEC C V5.6-084 on Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev. 878) With CFLAGS="-g -O0", I get: Loading /opt/build/xemacs-21.4.3/lisp/x-win-xfree86.elc... Loading /opt/build/xemacs-21.4.3/lisp/x-win-sun.elc... Loading /opt/build/xemacs-21.4.3/lisp/tty-init.elc... Loading /opt/build/xemacs-21.4.3/lisp/fontl-hooks.elc... Loading /opt/build/xemacs-21.4.3/lisp/auto-show.elc... Loading /opt/build/xemacs-21.4.3/lisp/loadhist.elc... Loading /opt/build/xemacs-21.4.3/lisp/loaddefs.elc... Loading site-load... Finding pointers to doc strings... Finding pointers to doc strings...done Dumping under the name xemacs unexec: No such file or directory, writing data section to /opt/build/xemacs-21.4.3/src/xemacs. gmake[1]: *** [xemacs] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/build/xemacs-21.4.3/src' gmake: *** [src] Error 2 I had no problems on 5.0A and 5.1. GCC 2.95.3 didn't help either. -- albert chin (china(a)thewrittenword.com)