On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: Indeed. That's the second most irritating thing about Xaw3d and friends. The most irritating is that they get installed over the top (or looking like it) of Xaw.so in a lot of places. The new configure stuff will try to link with -lXaw3d when using the 3D stuff. That's usually there any prevents the problem one way around. As to going the other... um... static linking? I can't see any way, other than big red letters in the PROBLEMS file of avoiding the particular lossage with flat Xaw. Painfully. As long as people put incompatible libraries over the top of each other... :( I don't know, X is still mostly a mystery to me :/ Daniel (Back from holidays and just under a thousand messages :) -- Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary? :-)] -- Larry Wall in <1992Jan10.201804.11926(a)netlabs.com&gt;