It runs "fakeroot debian/rules -j2 stage" now, for an x11 binary, a minimalist tty only binary, the support etc, support elc and el, a doc-info and a doc-html package. (wow, this new computer sure is fast!) If you've got Debian "sid" (unstable) installed, you can try it if you like. (waste a few minutes for the heck of it) It is not finished yet, but interesting, perhaps. It will be a few more weekends before it's ready to use for generatation of uploadable Debian packages. This had too much work done on it to just throw away, so I'm finally going to finish it and make it available for others to use. It's quite the set of makefiles, if I do say so myself. There's probably about 60-80 hours of work into it, all told. (not much total time, considering I began the project in 1999!) The setup is partially tested with release-21-4 from today's CVS. The patches directory contains a few patches that should be applied, by hand, for now, first. % cd <srcdir> # run an xemacs source checkout, or stand next to the one you've got. % export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs＠cvs.hegbloom.net:/var/cvs/debian % cvs login <empty password, just press enter> % cvs -z3 checkout debian.xemacs % cd xemacs % ln -s ../debian.xemacs debian <URL:http://cvs.hegbloom.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi> Tell me if none of that works for you. Targets are, roughly: fakeroot debian/rules [-j2] config ... ... build ... ... stage config-minimalist config-support-bin config-deluxe-x11 build-... stage-... ... and so forth. It should be very straightforward to add a new editor binary configuration and make this thing create a "custom" package. I will need help with the Mule versions, at some point. I'll holler when I'm ready. (The combinatorial explosion presented *really* makes me want DSO support to get completed!)