After the mixed blessing of an upgrade to the latest macos (your choice of capitalization) 1.12, I tried to rebuild XEmacs 21.4.24 via pkgsrc. It fails in the protable dumper: [...] Loading /var/obj/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs/work/xemacs-21.4.24/src/../lisp/update-elc.el... Loading very-early-lisp... Loading find-paths.el... Loading packages.el... Loading setup-paths.el... Loading dump-paths.el... Loading /var/obj/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs/work/xemacs-21.4.24/lisp/dumped-lisp.el... Wrote /var/obj/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs/work/xemacs-21.4.24/src/NEEDTODUMP Building finder database ... /bin/sh: line 1: 46439 Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) /var/obj/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs/work/xemacs-21.4.24/src/xemacs -batch -vanilla -eval '(setq finder-compile-keywords-quiet t)' -l finder -f finder-compile-keywords *** Error code 139 Stop. bmake: stopped in /var/obj/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs/work/xemacs-21.4.24 *** Error code 1 % /<6>xemacs-21.4.24/src > lldb -f xemacs (lldb) target create "xemacs" Current executable set to 'xemacs' (x86_64). (lldb) r -batch -vanilla -eval '(setq finder-compile-keywords-quiet t)' -l finder -f finder-compile-keywords Process 46540 launched: '/private/var/obj/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs/work/xemacs-21.4.24/src/xemacs' (x86_64) Process 46540 stopped * thread #1, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=1, address=0x10e354a30) frame #0: 0x000000010006a3a4 xemacs`pdump_load_finish at dumper.c:1112 1109 for (i=0; i<header->nb_root_struct_ptrs; i++) 1110 { 1111 pdump_static_pointer ptr = PDUMP_READ (p, pdump_static_pointer); -> 1112 (* ptr.address) = ptr.value + delta; 1113 } 1114 1115 /* Put back the pdump_opaques */ (lldb) bt * thread #1, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=1, address=0x10e354a30) * frame #0: 0x000000010006a3a4 xemacs`pdump_load_finish at dumper.c:1112 frame #1: 0x000000010006a0b4 xemacs`pdump_load(argv0="/private/var/obj/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs/work/xemacs-21.4.24/src/xemacs") at dumper.c:1447 frame #2: 0x000000010004d04c xemacs`xemacs_21_4_24_x86_64_apple_darwin16(argc=9, argv=0x00007fff5fbff678, envp=0x00007fff5fbff6c8, restart=0) at emacs.c:1300 frame #3: 0x000000010004fe94 xemacs`main(argc=9, argv=0x00007fff5fbff678, envp=0x00007fff5fbff6c8) at emacs.c:2829 frame #4: 0x00007fff9eb08235 libdyld.dylib`start + 1 frame #5: 0x00007fff9eb08235 libdyld.dylib`start + 1 (lldb) frame variable (int) i = 0 (char *) p = 0x0000000101bf35b0 "\xa0U5\x0e\x01" (long) delta = 4320133120 (long) count = 140734799802544 (pdump_header *) header = 0x0000000101800000 (pdump_static_pointer) ptr = { address = 0x000000010e354a30 value = 0x00000000002f3b68 "" } (lldb) 'make configure' has XEmacs 21.4.24 "Standard C" configured for `x86_64-apple-darwin16'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /var/obj/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs/work/xemacs-21.4.24 Installation prefix: /opt/pkg Additional header files: /opt/pkg/include /opt/pkg/include Additional libraries: /opt/pkg/lib /opt/pkg/lib Runtime library search path: /opt/pkg/lib:/opt/pkg/lib Operating system description file: `s/darwin.h' Not using any machine description file Compiler: clang -pipe -g3 -Dunix -I/opt/pkg/include Compiler version: clang on x86_64-apple-darwin16 Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: no - The GNU allocators don't work with this system configuration. libc: system-provided libc on x86_64-apple-darwin16 ... any pointers? Cheerio, Hauke -- The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath () No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik /\ No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-21344