flyspell mode not buffer local?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Tim Connors writes:

 > I don't either, on Centos 4, with their xemacs.  I do with debian unstable 
 > though, and their packages xemacs, and I shall investigate more when I've 
 > got that box in front of me.

Is flyspell bundled with GNU Emacs?  If not, there's some chance that
flyspell got dragged in as a Debian package and you've got a version
that is not fully compatible with XEmacs; or simply an old set of
XEmacs packages.