I've got no reply.  So no one's using XEmacs around?

(Meaning I can't go ahead with this until I get plenty of time...
 That's not bad for me, though. ;-)

Masao

> This is my first install-looks-okay-at-least version of XEmacs
> 21.4.12.  This, though looks cleanly built, dies as soon as invoked if
> with X.  The backtrace log shows it fails to configure XIM or
> something around GUI Toolkit.  `-nw' is working fine.
> 
> This version of XEmacs comes with rather complicated configure options
> for GUI.  This is not so good in that not all combinations of options
> seem to work (at least for me.)