The module stuff is broken at install time if ${prefix} is different from ${exec_prefix}. For example, I see in GNUmakefile: datadir=${prefix}/lib moduledir=${datadir}/${instvardir}/${configuration}/modules which must be wrong, since moduledir is system-dependent, and ${prefix} is system-independent. Presumably ${sitelispdir} is system-independent and ${sitemoduledir} is system-dependent, so how come they are installed next to each other? sitelispdir=${datadir}/${inststaticdir}/site-lisp sitemoduledir=${datadir}/${inststaticdir}/site-modules When I do `make install', I get: /usr/bin/install -c src/xemacs /home/martin/x/inst/linux-libc2/bin/xemacs-21.2-b19 chmod 0755 /home/martin/x/inst/linux-libc2/bin/xemacs-21.2-b19 cd /home/martin/x/inst/linux-libc2/bin && rm -f ./xemacs && ln -s xemacs-21.2-b19 ./xemacs if test "/home/martin/x/inst" != "/home/martin/x/inst/linux-libc2"; then \ for dir in \ lib/xemacs \ lib/xemacs-21.2-b19/etc \ lib/xemacs-21.2-b19/info \ lib/xemacs-21.2-b19/lisp; do \ if test ! -d /home/martin/x/inst/linux-libc2/${dir}; then \ ln -s /home/martin/x/inst/${dir} /home/martin/x/inst/linux-libc2/${dir}; fi; \ done; \ fi ln: cannot create symbolic link `/home/martin/x/inst/linux-libc2/lib/xemacs-21.2-b19/etc' to `/home/martin/x/inst/lib/xemacs-21.2-b19/etc': No such file or directory ln: cannot create symbolic link `/home/martin/x/inst/linux-libc2/lib/xemacs-21.2-b19/info' to `/home/martin/x/inst/lib/xemacs-21.2-b19/info': No such file or directory ln: cannot create symbolic link `/home/martin/x/inst/linux-libc2/lib/xemacs-21.2-b19/lisp' to `/home/martin/x/inst/lib/xemacs-21.2-b19/lisp': No such file or directory make: *** [install-arch-dep] Error 1 I suggest whoever made these changes originally try to debug this by doing something like ../src/configure --prefix=/dir1 --exec-prefix=/dir2; make; make install Let me know if I have to fix this myself. I repeat: I cannot install xemacs (although, it is true, running in place works fine). This must be fixed immediately. Martin