libc6 rather than libc5 ncurses libs and headers. I am in the midst of upgrading everything to libc6 (a Debian Linux system), and the ncurses 3.0 (libc5) and ncurses 3.4 (libc6) are both in /usr/lib. XEmacs will build with TTY support, but warnings are generated during compilation concerning the incompatibility of libc5 ncurses and libc6. The resulting executable will dump core immediately. I disabled the TTY support and all built and runs well. Does anyone have any hints on how to convince the configure script to find the right ncurses? BTW appending the contents of my old ~/.xemacs/options.el to ~/.xemacs/init.el has worked well. uname -a: Linux liatris 2.0.34 #1 Sat May 23 22:20:59 CDT 1998 i586 unknown ./configure '--prefix=/usr/local/xemacs-beta' '--with-site-lisp' '--package-path=/usr/local/xemacs-beta/lib/xemacs/packages' '--with-toolbars=no' '--gung-ho' '--with-xpm' '--with-pop' '--with-tiff=no' '--with-gif=no' '--with-dialogs=athena' '--error-checking=none' '--debug=no' '--with-tty=no' XEmacs 21.0-b41 "San Clemente" configured for `i586-pc-linux'. Where should the build process find the source code? /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.0-b41 What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local/xemacs-beta What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/linux.h' and `m/intel386.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.) Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11R6/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image conversion. Compiling in native sound support. Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for OffiX. Compiling in support for Drag'n'Drop ( OffiX ). Compiling in support for proper session-management. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Compiling in DLL support. movemail will use "dot-locking" for locking mail spool files. Using POP for mail access Using Lisp_Objects with minimal tagbits. Using indexed lrecord implementation. ]+ hides " /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.0-b41/lib-src/etags.c:1849: warning: array subscript has type `char' /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.0-b41/lib-src/etags.c:1849: warning: array subscript has type `char' /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.0-b41/lib-src/etags.c:1849: warning: array subscript has type `char' /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.0-b41/lib-src/etags.c:1849: warning: array subscript has type `char' /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.0-b41/lib-src/ootags.c:1912: warning: array subscript has type `char' /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.0-b41/lib-src/ootags.c:1912: warning: array subscript has type `char' events.c:635: warning: unused variable `f' search.c:2265: warning: `prev' might be used uninitialized in this function sysdep.c:909: warning: unused variable `con' glyphs-x.c:164: warning: `qtable' might be used uninitialized in this function Purespace usage: 95168 of 1507600 (6% -- 1379k wasted). Purespace usage: 758288 of 1507600 (50% -- 731k wasted). XEmacs: Pure size adjusted, Don't Panic! I will restart the `make' make[1]: [xemacs] Error 1 (ignored) Purespace usage: 758288 of 758288 (100%). /usr/local/xemacs-beta/lib/xemacs/site-lisp/time-stamp hides /usr/local/xemacs-beta/lib/xemacs/packages/lisp/xemacs-base/time-stamp /usr/local/xemacs-beta/lib/xemacs/packages/lisp/efs/passwd hides /usr/local/xemacs-beta/lib/xemacs/packages/lisp/xemacs-base/passwd /usr/local/xemacs-beta/lib/xemacs/packages/lisp/efs/auto-save hides /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.0-b41/lisp/auto-save 3 Emacs Lisp load-path shadowings were foundLoading /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.0-b41/lisp/auto-autoloads... (file auto-autoloads.el is newer)