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: I have not been able to reproduce this with the current XEmacs from CVS. Does it still occur? Moreover, note that --datadir will not do what you want: the directory also includes architecture-dependent files. See this setting in configure.in, for instance: archlibdir='${datadir}/${instvardir}/${configuration}' Having said that, I've found two other minor issues with specifying datadir for which I'll submit a patch shortly. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla