Sitting around waiting out the blizzard, I figured it would be a good time to see about compiling Xemacs-21.5-b11. Starting with what should have been a simple build . . . + make clean make: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop. + ../configure i686-pc-cygwin --compiler=gcc --without-x --extra-verbose --with-site-lisp=yes --package-path=/usr/local/lib/xemacs/ --with-pop --debug --error-checking=all Defining PACKAGE_PATH_USER_DEFINED checking whether ln -s works... yes Defining EMACS_MAJOR_VERSION = 21 Defining EMACS_MINOR_VERSION = 5 Defining EMACS_BETA_VERSION = 11 Defining XEMACS_CODENAME = "cabbage" One small surprise is the following early error message in sysout (rather than configure.log) . . . checking for GNU libc... no Extracting information from the machine- and system-dependent headers... conftest.c:44: parse error before `=' token Defining SYSTEM_TYPE = "cygwin_nt-5.0" libs_machine = '' The configure ends horribly with: Appending "Makefile.in" to $ac_output_files Appending "lib-src/Makefile.in" to $ac_output_files Appending "src/Makefile.in:src/Makefile.in.in:src/depend" to $ac_output_files creating ./config.status creating Makefile.in creating lib-src/Makefile.in creating src/Makefile.in creating src/paths.h creating lib-src/config.values creating src/config.h creating lwlib/config.h lwlib/config.h is unchanged creating ./Makefile junk.c:19: parse error before string constant <================================ creating ./GNUmakefile junk.c:16: parse error before string constant creating lib-src/Makefile junk.c:7: parse error before string constant creating lib-src/GNUmakefile junk.c:7: parse error before string constant creating src/Makefile junk.c:7: parse error before string constant creating src/GNUmakefile junk.c:7: parse error before string constant And all of ./Makefile & ./GNUmakefile are empty. (0 bytes) <system-info> HOST=i686 MSWin2000Pro Cygwin . . . Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.3.20 DLL epoch: 19 DLL bad signal mask: 19005 DLL old termios: 5 DLL malloc env: 28 API major: 0 API minor: 73 Shared data: 3 DLL identifier: cygwin1 Mount registry: 2 Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Program options name: Program Options Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Sat Feb 8 12:10:49 EST 2003 Shared id: cygwin1S3 bash-2.05b $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020927 (prerelease) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. bash-2.05b $ </system-info> -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software. .