FWIW i built emacs on a 32 bit sparc64 system a couple of months ago, but this was then -current (2.99.10.) .mrg. splode ~> pkg_info emacs Information for emacs-21.3nb5: Comment: GNU editing macros (editor) Requires: jpeg>=6bnb2 libungif>=4.1.3nb1 png>=1.2.6nb1 tiff>=3.6.1nb3 [ .. ]