The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to sun.emacs as well. Compiled xemacs 21.2.17 on Solaris 7 in 64bit mode using Sun Workshop 5.0. Now it occasionally hangs while trying to load cus-edit.el, So I decided to re-compile lisp files. Compilation of lisp files hangs while compiling lisp/cus-edit.el: Checking for Mule support... Yes Compiling files without .elc... /usr/local/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.17/src/xemacs -batch -vanilla -f batch-byte-compile lisp/./cus-edit.el lisp/./cus-face.el lisp/./cus-load.el lisp/./custom-load.el lisp/./disass.el lisp/./disp-table.el lisp/./etags.el lisp/./files-nomule.el lisp/./finder-inf.el lisp/./finder.el lisp/./font-lock.el lisp/./font-menu.el lisp/./font.el lisp/./gnuserv.el lisp/./help-macro.el lisp/./help-nomule.el lisp/./hyper-apropos.el lisp/./info.el lisp/./ldap.el lisp/./lisp-mnt.el Compiling /home/rajesh/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.17/lisp/cus-edit.el... Loading customization dependencies...<hangs> truss shows: 20131/1: getcontext(0xFFFFFFFF7FFF88E0) 20131/1: getcontext(0xFFFFFFFF7FFF88E0) 20131/1: stat("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages/lisp/pc/custom-load.elc", 0xFFFFFFFF7FFF8A40) = 0 20131/1: access("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages/lisp/pc/custom-load.elc", 4) = 0 20131/1: getcontext(0xFFFFFFFF7FFF88E0) Installation: uname -a: SunOS einstein 5.7 Generic_107605-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 ./configure 'sparc-sun-solaris2' '--verbose' '--site-includes=/usr/local/include' '--site-runtime-libraries=/usr/local/lib' '--with-site-lisp=yes' '--with-workshop=yes' '--with-mule=yes' '--with-ldap=yes' '--with-sound=no' '--x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib/sparcv9' XEmacs 21.2-b17 "Chiyoda" configured for `sparc-sun-solaris2'. Where should the build process find the source code? /home/rajesh/src/gnu/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.17 What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/sol2.h' and `m/sparc.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? cc -xO3 -xtarget=ultra2i -xcache=16/32/1:256/64/1 -xarch=v9 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/dt/include /usr/openwin/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/dt/lib /usr/openwin/lib/sparcv9 Additional header files: /usr/local/include Runtime library search path: /usr/local/lib Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for DBM. Compiling in support for LDAP. Compiling in Mule (multi-lingual) support. Compiling in XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method) support. Using Motif to provide XIM support. Compiling in support for CDE. Compiling in support for ToolTalk. Compiling in EXPERIMENTAL support for Drag'n'Drop ( CDE ). Compiling in support for Sun WorkShop. Compiling in support for proper WM_COMMAND handling. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Motif dialog boxes. Compiling in DLL support. movemail will use "dot-locking" for locking mail spool files. Compiling in extra code for debugging. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: Compiling in support for runtime error checking. WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result. WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- Any ideas where to start poking? -rajesh