I think I've figured out where the problem is, anyway. It's in recent 
revisions to the lisp packages for xemacs.

On my office system with the current version of xemacs (21.5.9-1) and 
(crucially!) the xemacs-sumo package from 20020919, calls to make label 
(among other things) crash emacs. My TiBook at home has an earlier 
version of xemacs, though (21.5-4) and an earlier version of the lisp 
packages (xemacs-sumo-2002-07), and it works fine.

So I tried downgrading xemacs to the earlier version, and I still got 
crashes. Once I downgraded xemacs-sumo to the earlier version, 
everything was fine (just like on my TiBook). So I put the current 
xemacs (21.5.9-1) back: it behaved strangely, but that's attributable 
to the fact that the dumped executable was built with the later lisp 
code, and I now had the earlier code in the libraries. So I rebuilt 
21.5.9-1 using the lisp code in xemacs-sumo-20020720, and everything 
now works.

I you want to use reftex and friends, you should re-install 
xemacs-sumo-20020720.tar.gz, and THEN rebuild xemacs (21.5.9-1).  You 
may have trouble finding the older version of xemacs-sumo if you don't 
have it lying around from an earlier install (as I didn't, in the 
office), you can find it at

ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/Attic/packages/xemacs-sumo-2002-07-20.tar.gz


-- 
Stephen R. Anderson
Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Yale University



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