Patched up from beta-52, using egcs-1.03 on a glibc Debian-2.0 machine. I'm still seeing this error when finder-inf.el is being compiled: Compiling /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.0-b54/lisp/finder-inf.el... While compiling toplevel forms in file \ /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.0-b54/lisp/finder-inf.el: !! Invalid read syntax ((". in wrong context")) The finder database appears to be empty. Aside from this, everything is working fine. uname -a: Linux liatris 2.1.117 #7 Fri Aug 21 06:46:18 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-tiff=no' '--with-dialogs=athena' '--error-checking=none' '--debug=no' '--with-pop' XEmacs 21.0 "Finnish Landrace" configured for `i586-pc-linux'. Where should the build process find the source code? /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.0-b54 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/X11/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 handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in native sound support. Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for GNU DBM. Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse). 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 "