While trying to debug a crash I've been seeing while closing a gnuclient window, I tried building with --external-widget. For reasons I don't understand, it insisted on putting a 'pic_arg = -K pic' in the makefile, even though AIX and the IBM xlc compiler generate position-independent code by default. In addition, the value of 'extw_link_mid' and 'extw_link_end' were broken - I used these values and it worked: extw_link_beg = $(LD) extw_link_mid = -bnoentry -bexpall -o extw_link_end = -lX11 -lc (noentry so it doesn't complain about lack of main(), and expall so symbols are exported from the shared library. The two -l entries for similar reasons). Yes, it's quibbling, and probably the first-and-only time it will be build with --external-widget under AIX.. ;) (Why did I do it at all? Because it crashed in the #else segment of a #ifdef EXTERNAL_WIDGET in frame-x.c. Didn't help any - the crash moved into the corresponding #ifdef (the XtDestroyWidget() on line 2674/2677). Film/dbx output at 11 on the *original* problem.. /Valdis