Sorry, I forgot to include the attatchment, so here is a copy of the original message, plus the attachment that should have been there: Hi. I am using a fresh, clean install of Mac OSX 10.6.3 Snow Leopard, build 10D578, fully updated, on an Intel Core Duo 32bit 13" MacBook. I have just downloaded emacs from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.1.tar.bz2 I do as the readme says, but the installation constantly crashes at the same point. I include printouts from the first two attempts (in case they are different). I dont know if this is relevant, but I noticed checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin10.3.0 checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin10.3.0 ... which does not seem correct (see my specs above). The app file is also not produced. Any advice, please? Yours sincerely Jan Heldal Norway.