Compiling on FreeBSD 5.2.1 revealed this problem. src/ChangeLog addition: 2005-03-09 Marcus Crestani <crestani(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; * database.c (berkdb_map): Add typecasts. xemacs-21.5 source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -u Files affected: src/database.c Index: src/database.c =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/src/database.c,v retrieving revision 1.33 diff -u -r1.33 database.c --- src/database.c 21 Jan 2005 20:07:06 -0000 1.33 +++ src/database.c 9 Mar 2005 14:36:15 -0000 ＠＠ -510,9 +510,9 ＠＠ status == 0; status = dbp->seq (dbp, &keydatum, &valdatum, R_NEXT)) { - key = make_ext_string (keydatum.data, keydatum.size, + key = make_ext_string ((const Extbyte *) keydatum.data, keydatum.size, db->coding_system); - val = make_ext_string (valdatum.data, valdatum.size, + val = make_ext_string ((const Extbyte *) valdatum.data, valdatum.size, db->coding_system); call2 (func, key, val); }