Achim Gratz writes: > Could you please state clearly what you want to have changed and > possibly how? You keep wandering back and forth in your arguments, but What I meant was: If GNU make is required it needs to be documented. Separately from that, the makefiles look much more complicated than I would have thought necessary, and if there aren't good reasons to require more than POSIX make, it would be nice to stay with POSIX. > to me it seems simply adding a sentence or two to the README file about > the need for GNU make would suffice until the full documentation is > finished. I'm sure Bastien would appreciate if you could supply a patch > for it. Fair enough - I have sent a patch which adds to the README the kind of information present in almost all other software pacakges. It needs adjusting to list the XEmacs versions that org can use, but I think it's close. Thanks, Greg