Doggone. I'm having a hard time getting used to this Kinesis keyboard. I was trying to hit C-left, but left is right under the letter C, so I accidentally sent a partially edited message. Here's what I really meant to send. "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; wrote: A quick experiment on my end seems to indicate that the value dumped in module-load-path is different in these two situations: - a (previous) build of XEmacs is installed in the place where this build will eventually be installed (it's enough for the directories to exist); - the directories will be created when this build of XEmacs is eventually installed. I'll note that this is *with* my last patch, though. I'll try backing the patch out and see if the same thing happens. I suspect it will, though, since it was getting nil the first time that took me down the path to creating that patch. -- Jerry James