"Couldn't find obvious defaults"?

Simon> My XEmacs 21.2 (no gtk, no gnome, but mule) says this on startup: Simon> WARNING: Simon> Couldn't find obvious defaults for: [...] Simon> and it seems pretty broken, M-x rmail RET in "xemacs -q" says: It _is_ broken. I can't replicate this with an installed xemacs, but I am using srcdir which may be important. You are probably getting a binary in a strange place, since it can't find any of the directories. OK, let's see: (1) It claims to be /usr/local/bin/xemacs, and you have prefix=/usr/local. Are you in fact running an installed xemacs? Not in-place in the source tree? (2) Are you sure the installation succeeded, and everything's where it should be under /usr/local? (3) If you're running in place, watch out for broken symlinks (or any symlinks at all, since you didn't use --srcdir). And I'll reiterate Adrian's suggestion of running with --debug-paths. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."