Hi Axel, please send us your Installation file. configure should have produced one in the XEmacs source tree's top-level directory. Adrian Axel> Please describe as succinctly as possible: - What happened. - What you Axel> thought should have happened. - Precisely what you were doing at the Axel> time. Axel> 1.) checkout out xemacs from CVS Axel> cvs -d :pserver:cvs＠cvs.xemacs.org:/pack/xemacscvs -z3 co -d Axel> xemacs-21.5 xemacs Axel> 2.) configured xemacs Axel> ./configure --error-checking=none Axel> --with-default-eol-detection --with-tty=yes --with-ncurses --with-gpm Axel> --with-gnome --with-gtk --debug=no --pdump=no Axel> 3.) then build it: Axel> neon:/mnt/lfs/usr/local/src/xemacs-21.5> make all Axel> cd ./lib-src && make all Axel> make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/usr/local/src/xemacs-21.5/lib-src' Axel> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Axel> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/usr/local/src/xemacs-21.5/lib-src' Axel> cd ./src && make all Axel> make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/usr/local/src/xemacs-21.5/src' Axel> ./temacs -nd -no-packages -batch -l Axel> /mnt/lfs/usr/local/src/xemacs-21.5/src/../lisp/update-elc.el Axel> Loading Axel> /mnt/lfs/usr/local/src/xemacs-21.5/src/../lisp/update-elc.el... Axel> Loading find-paths.el... Axel> Loading packages.el... Axel> Loading setup-paths.el... Axel> Loading /mnt/lfs/usr/local/src/xemacs-21.5/lisp/dumped-lisp.el... Axel> ./xemacs -no-packages -batch -no-autoloads -l update-elc-2.el -f Axel> batch-update-elc-2 /mnt/lfs/usr/local/src/xemacs-21.5/src/../lisp Axel> xemacs exiting. Axel> Wrong type argument: vectorp, #<INTERNAL OBJECT (XEmacs bug?) Axel> (symbol-value-forward type 7584) 0x4053d008>make[1]: *** Axel> [update-elc-2] Error 255 Axel> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/usr/local/src/xemacs-21.5/src' Axel> make: *** [src] Error 2 Axel> Best regards, Axel> Axel Siebenwirth -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

axel> 2.) configured xemacs axel> ./configure --error-checking=none axel> --with-default-eol-detection --with-tty=yes --with-ncurses axel> --with-gpm --with-gnome --with-gtk --debug=no --pdump=no Assuming that this is the same platform as this: axel> ./configure '--error-checking=none' axel> '--with-default-eol-detection' '--with-tty=yes' axel> '--with-ncurses' '--with-gpm' '--with-gnome' '--with-gtk' axel> XEmacs 21.5-b13 "cauliflower" (+CVS-20030530) configured for axel> `i686-pc-linux'. you're pretty surely going to lose unless you know what you're doing. pdump defaults on on Linux for a reason. If we knew in detail what the reason is, maybe we'd try to fix unexec, but we don't. We just know that non-pdump builds often lose on that platform, possibly related to changes in malloc for glibc 2.1. If you're getting the same errors with a --pdump build, that's a lot more interesting. Are you getting the same problem with --pdump (or with the default? -- 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.