Something else and I haven't got a definitive answer for it either. emacspeak 16.0 the latest version ends up compiling with several undefined symbols on slackware 8.0.0. It's probably an earlier version that won't have problems. I ended up getting emacspeak.tgz off of James Vanzandt's page and that installed with fewer problems but it may not be the latest version that will work. I'll have to find a link to Matt Campbell's home page to figure the rest of this out.