On the failure I am having during the build process of Uzbek Black on LinuxPPC: SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote, That way, it no longer complains about the -rdynamic option being unavalabily. However, the make temacs itself still fails the same way. cd ./lib-src && make CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-g -O2 -fsigned-char' LDFLAGS='' CPPFLAGS='' all make[1]: Entering directory `/home/toge/BUILD/xemacs-21.0-b44/lib-src' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/toge/BUILD/xemacs-21.0-b44/lib-src' cd ./lwlib && make CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-g -O2 -fsigned-char' LDFLAGS='' CPPFLAGS='' all make[1]: Entering directory `/home/toge/BUILD/xemacs-21.0-b44/lwlib' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/toge/BUILD/xemacs-21.0-b44/lwlib' cd ./src && make CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-g -O2 -fsigned-char' LDFLAGS='' CPPFLAGS='' all make[1]: Entering directory `/home/toge/BUILD/xemacs-21.0-b44/src' gcc -g -O2 -fsigned-char -T /home/toge/BUILD/xemacs-21.0-b44/src/ppc.ldscript -L/usr/X11/lib -export-dynamic -o temacs abbrev.o alloc.o blocktype.o buffer.o bytecode.o callint.o callproc.o casefiddle.o casetab.o chartab.o cmdloop.o cmds.o console.o console-stream.o data.o device.o dired.o doc.o doprnt.o dynarr.o editfns.o elhash.o emacs.o eval.o events.o unexelf.o dragdrop.o menubar.o scrollbar.o dialog.o toolbar.o gui.o menubar-x.o scrollbar-x.o dialog-x.o toolbar-x.o gui-x.o mule.o mule-ccl.o mule-charset.o mule-coding.o file-coding.o input-method-xlib.o mule-canna.o inline.o linuxplay.o console-tty.o device-tty.o event-tty.o frame-tty.o objects-tty.o redisplay-tty.o cm.o terminfo.o gpmevent.o event-unixoid.o database.o sysdll.o dll.o process-unix.o event-stream.o extents.o faces.o fileio.o filemode.o floatfns.o fns.o font-lock.o frame.o general.o getloadavg.o glyphs.o glyphs-eimage.o hash.o imgproc.o indent.o insdel.o intl.o keymap.o line-number.o lread.o lstream.o macros.o marker.o md5.o minibuf.o objects.o opaque.o print.o process.o profile.o pure.o rangetab.o redisplay.o redisplay-output.o regex.o search.o signal.o sound.o specifier.o strftime.o symbols.o syntax.o sysdep.o undo.o balloon_help.o balloon-x.o console-x.o device-x.o event-Xt.o frame-x.o glyphs-x.o objects-x.o redisplay-x.o xgccache.o xselect.o widget.o window.o lastfile.o gmalloc.o vm-limit.o ralloc.o EmacsFrame.o EmacsShell.o TopLevelEmacsShell.o TransientEmacsShell.o EmacsManager.o offix.o ../lwlib/liblw.a -lcanna -lRKC -lXaw -lcompface -ltiff -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lXpm -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -ldl -ldb -lgdbm -lgpm -lncurses -lintl -lm -lgcc -lc -lgcc /usr/lib/crtn.o `gcc -print-libgcc-file-name` ld: final link failed: Bad value make[1]: *** [temacs] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/toge/BUILD/xemacs-21.0-b44/src' make: *** [src] Error 2 Hmm, this error message is not so helpful, is it? I think I'll re-DL the entire b47 packages and give a try, but it will take a while before I can report on the result then. Rebards, - Nobu Toge (toge(a)accad1.kek.jp)