The latest CVS still fails as per below, in case anyone is interested .. I have rolled my tree back to r21-2-32 and that builds and works without incident.

#2 0x80aaaf1 in dead_wrong_type_argument (predicate={...}, value={...}) at /usr/src/xemacs-21.2/src/data.c:110 #3 0x80e97ff in Fget_coding_system (name={...}) at /usr/src/xemacs-21.2/src/file-coding.c:549 #4 0x8092ff4 in dfc_convert_to_external_format (source_type=DFC_TYPE_DATA, source=0xbfffd9e4, coding_system={...}, sink_type=DFC_TYPE_DATA, sink=0xbfffd9dc) at /usr/src/xemacs-21.2/src/buffer.c:1881 #5 0x8170840 in std_handle_out_va (stream=0x404818e0, fmt=0x821a700 "malloc_set_state failed, rc = %d\n", args=0xbffffa18) at /usr/src/xemacs-21.2/src/print.c:177 #6 0x8170904 in stderr_out ( fmt=0x821a700 "malloc_set_state failed, rc = %d\n") at /usr/src/xemacs-21.2/src/print.c:193