Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ... I agree. I've always thought the defaulting of configure output to verbose makes the problem worse if anything. Fascinating. Configure has so many bogus defaults for my system I can't do that and get an XEmacs I wish to run. We probably need a quiet option that only prints out fatal error messages. It really depends on the speed of the machine you're building XEmacs on. I've been really annoyed at spending 20 minutes configuring XEmacs on a slow Sparc only to find it chose the wrong options and on a fast machine it doesn't matter.