drv> Gunnar Evermann wrote: drv> I appearantly can't do that on my linux box. Works fine on my Debian woody box. Note it's --pdump --use-union-type with assorted Mule and Athena 3D features. Haven't used it to edit, but it starts and exits in the usual way. drv> BTW, I have other weird problems from time to time, like once drv> in a while a core produced by XEmacs is in "unreadable drv> format" for gdb, I don't know why. I've seen this with (1) insufficient file system space for the whole core file, it won't read the truncated one, and (2) with old versions of gdb working with xemacsen produced by more recent gcc (but that was at least a year ago). Here's the Installation (what a pretty format!), a slightly moldy (>24 hours old) 21.2-b36: bash-2.04$ cat ~/Projects/XEmacs/Builds/21.2/Installation uname -a: Linux tleepslib 2.4.0-test7 #1 Thu Sep 7 18:30:33 JST 2000 i686 unknown /coda/Projects/XEmacs/21.2-HEAD/configure '--srcdir=/coda/Projects/XEmacs/21.2-HEAD' '--with-widgets=athena' '--with-athena=3d' '--with-dialogs=athena' '--with-sound=none,nas' '--with-mule' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-xfs' '--use-union-type' '--pdump' XEmacs 21.2-b36 "Notus" configured for `i686-pc-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /coda/Projects/XEmacs/21.2-HEAD Installation prefix: /usr/local Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Compiling in support for the Athena widget set: - Athena headers location: X11/Xaw3d - Athena library to link: Xaw3d Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Using Athena native widgets. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Sound: Compiling in support for NAS (network audio system). Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Compiling in support for PostgreSQL. - Using PostgreSQL header file: postgresql/libpq-fe.h - Using PostgreSQL V7 bindings. Internationalization: Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs). Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method). - Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. - Using XFontSet to provide bilingual menubar. Compiling in support for Canna on Mule. Compiling in support for the WNN input method on Mule. Mail: Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Using the union type for Lisp_Objects. Using the new portable dumper. Compiling in support for extra debugging code. 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: --------------------------------------------------------- -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."