The announcement on Sep 29 said '21.2-pre7', but the tarball on ftp.xemacs.org is labelled 21.2-b2. I patched up from a 21.2-b1, and it seems to be working OK, modulo a few gotchas: 1) I needed --with-dialogs=athena --with-dragndrop=no to keep it from dying an early death. 2) Preliminary testing shows that IBM xlc at -O4 does Bad Things to the configure script (namely, the tests that check for a routine 'main()' in a library. I'll dig more into this once I get ibmcxx 3.6.4 in. /Valdis uname -a: AIX black-ice 3 4 003260504C00 ./configure '-with-gcc=no' '--compiler=xlc' '--cflags=-O3 -qstrict -qlibansi -qarch=ppc -qtune=604 -qproto' '--with-dialogs=athena' '--with-dragndrop=no' '--x-includes=/usr/X11R6.4/include' '--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6.4/lib' '--gung-ho' '--dynamic=yes' '--debug=no' '--error-checking=none' '--with-mule=no' '--site-includes=/usr/local/include' '--site-libraries=/usr/local/lib' XEmacs 21.2-b2 "Aether" configured for `powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.1.0'. Where should the build process find the source code? /home/valdis/src/xemacs-21.2-b1/src What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/aix4-2.h' and `m/ibmrs6000.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? xlc_r -O3 -qstrict -qlibansi -qarch=ppc -qtune=604 -qproto Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/dt/include /usr/X11R6.4/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/dt/lib /usr/X11R6.4/lib Additional header files: /usr/local/include Additional libraries: /usr/local/lib Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: Compiling without PNG image support. WARNING: You should strongly consider installing the PNG libraries. WARNING: Otherwise certain images and glyphs may not display. WARNING: (a copy may be found in ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/aux) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for TIFF image handling. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Compiling in support for GNU DBM. Compiling in support for ToolTalk. Compiling in support for proper session-management. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Compiling in DLL support. movemail will use "lockf" for locking mail spool files. Using Lisp_Objects with minimal tagbits. Using indexed lrecord implementation.