The configure script in the xemacs-21.5.28 distribution is generated with autoconf 2.61, but the comments at the top of the script mention that autoconf 2.59 is mandatory. I seem to recall that there were some incompatibilities with autoconf 2.61 initially, but that they were solved at some point before 21.5.28 was released, so I guess the comment is outdated? Furthermore I also needed to apply the following patch to configure.ac to get Berkeley DB support to actually work for berkdb-4.2.52: --- configure.ac 2007/05/21 03:50:13 1.59 +++ configure.ac 2007/06/24 08:44:04 ＠＠ -5475,7 +5478,7 ＠＠ fi dnl Berk db 4.1 decorates public functions with version information - if test "$enable_database_berkdb" != "yes" -a "$dbver" = "4"; then + if test "$enable_database_berkdb" = "yes" -a "$dbver" = "4"; then rm -f $tempcname echo "#include <$db_h_file>" > $tempcname echo "configure___ dbfunc=db_create" >> $tempcname Kind regards, Hans _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta