John> tried again with DEC (er, Compaq, er, HP) C compiler instead John> of gcc - failed much earlier with: cc: Error: /users/turner/Tools/src/xemacs/lib-src/etags.c, line 408: In the initializer for longopts, an array's element type is incomplete, which precludes its initialization. (incompelinit) { "packages-only", no_argument, &packages_only, TRUE }, --^ cc: Error: /users/turner/Tools/src/xemacs/lib-src/etags.c, line 450: The member "regs" has an incomplete type. (incompmem) struct re_registers regs; ----------------------^ The required declarations are #included, or perhaps I should say, "# included". Maybe cc doesn't grok the space in the preprocessor command and treats it as a comment? If so, ANSI C specifies that whitespace before and after an initial # be ignored, so maybe you can get that respected with an option. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.