Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com&gt; writes: As near as I can tell from examining old versions of this function, that test is dead code which should be deleted (this is why I didn't apply your proposed patch for this earlier). 1998-04-23 SL Baur <steve(a)altair.xemacs.org&gt; * frame-x.c (x_delete_frame): remove dead code. Index: src/frame-x.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/xemacs/xemacs-20.0/src/frame-x.c,v retrieving revision 1.30 diff -u -r1.30 frame-x.c --- src/frame-x.c 1998/04/07 05:39:41 1.30 +++ src/frame-x.c 1998/04/24 05:38:26 ＠＠ -2499,8 +2499,7 ＠＠ XtUnrealizeWidget() here. Xt can really suck. */ if (f->being_deleted) XtUnrealizeWidget (w); - if (NILP (popup)) - XtDestroyWidget (w); + XtDestroyWidget (w); x_error_occurred_p (dpy); } #else O.K. This goes on to bomb later: pgcc -c -fpic -g -fno-exceptions -Demacs -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/X11/include /home/xemacs/xemacs-20.0/src/ExternalClient.c mv ExternalClient.o ExternalClient-Xt-shared.o pgcc -c -fpic -g -fno-exceptions -Demacs -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/X11/include /home/xemacs/xemacs-20.0/src/extw-Xt.c mv extw-Xt.o extw-Xt-shared.o pgcc -c -fpic -g -fno-exceptions -Demacs -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/X11/include /home/xemacs/xemacs-20.0/src/extw-Xlib.c mv extw-Xlib.o extw-Xlib-shared.o EXTW_LINK(ExternalClient-Xt-shared.o extw-Xt-shared.o extw-Xlib-shared.o, libextcli_Xt.so.1) zsh: command not found: EXTW_LINK make[1]: *** [libextcli_Xt.so.1] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/build20/external-widget/src' make: *** [src] Error 2 Now what?