21.2-b8 "Artemis" failure with RH5.2 ?

Flame me to death if I'm being stupid or if I missed this thread over Xmas, but 21.2 beta 8 failed to compile at home under RedHat 5.2 (with the supplied kernel, etc - pretty much still "out of the box" - I only upgraded last week). I've checked at http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-build-reports/9901 but nothing really seems to match it. make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ccsnjd/src/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.8/src' EMACSBOOTSTRAPLOADPATH="/home/ccsnjd/src/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.8/src/../lisp/:/home/ccsnjd/src/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.8" ./temacs -batch -l /home/ccsnjd/src/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.8/src/../lisp/update-elc.el Loading /home/ccsnjd/src/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.8/src/../lisp/update-elc.el... Loading very-early-lisp... (2124) Loading find-paths.el... (13900) Loading packages.el... (24336) Loading setup-paths.el... (5480) Loading dump-paths.el... (0) Loading /home/ccsnjd/src/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.8/src/../lisp/dumped-lisp.el... (136) Loading /usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages/lisp/efs/dumped-lisp.el... (0) make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ccsnjd/src/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.8/src' MAKE='make' EMACS='./src/xemacs' sh /home/ccsnjd/src/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.8/lib-src/update-elc.sh (using ./src/xemacs) Recompiling in /home/ccsnjd/src/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.8 with /home/ccsnjd/src/xemacs/xemacs-21.2.8/src/xemacs... Autoloading failed to define function batch-remove-old-elc xemacs exiting. make: *** [all-elc] Error 255 [ccsnjd＠pangur-ban xemacs-21.2.8]$ uname -a Linux pangur-ban.dev.niss.ac.uk 2.0.36 #1 Tue Dec 29 13:11:13 EST 1998 i586 unknown