All went well. XEmacs seems slower to start on the kde desktop -- don't know why that might be or if it's really so. I had to su to root and make-finder to get all finder files made. Otherwise, uneventful. uname -a: Linux ore 2.0.30 #8 Sat Apr 25 16:42:54 EDT 1998 i586 ./configure '--cflags=-g -Wall -O3 -fno-caller-saves -fno-strength-reduce -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2' '--with-xface=yes' '--error-checking=none' '--debug=no' '--with-png=yes' '--with-jpeg=yes' '--with-mule=yes' '--with-site-lisp=yes' XEmacs 21.0-b37 "Pygmy" configured for `i586-pc-linux'. Where should the build process find the source code? /home/rebecca/xemacs-21.0-b37 What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/linux.h' and `m/intel386.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? gcc -g -Wall -O3 -fno-caller-saves -fno-strength-reduce -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 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/X11R6/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Compiling in support for GIF image conversion. Compiling in support for JPEG image conversion. Compiling in support for PNG image conversion. Compiling in support for TIFF image conversion. Compiling in native sound support. Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in Mule (multi-lingual) support. Compiling in XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method) support. Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. Compiling in support for OffiX. Compiling in support for proper session-management. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Compiling in DLL support. movemail will use "dot-locking" for locking mail spool files.