[Sorry if this has already been reported: I'm not on xemacs-beta now.
I am not a viper user and I don't have time to investigate further.
I have Poitou and the latest packages from cvs.]
make[2]: Entering directory `xemacs-packages/wp/viper'
Creating ./_pkg.el
xemacs -no-autoloads -batch -l ../../package-compile.el -- advice cl ring xemacs-base --
viper-cmd.el
Loading xemacs-20/solaris-build/lisp/auto-autoloads...
Loading xemacs-packages/libs/xemacs-base/auto-autoloads...
Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
xemacs exiting.
make[2]: *** [viper-cmd.elc] Error 255
make[2]: Leaving directory `xemacs-packages/wp/viper'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
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Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen <
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~petersen/>
Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University