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> I am trying to compile xfm-1.3.2 and all was okay till I couldn't find 
> alloca.h.  I notice that Linux was mentioned as a platform on with it has 
> been built, so I got a copy of alloca.h and features.h (required by 
> alloca.h) and tried my luck.  this time I get...

Remove the requirement for alloca.h
Eg. 
#ifndef __GNUCC__
#include <alloca.h>
#endif

(No, I haven't seen the code)
Gcc has alloca built-in.

regards
kim