Hi Ben! Here's another one. This time building packages is failing for 21.4 with: XEmacs-214m -vanilla -batch -eval '(setq stack-trace-on-error t load-always-display-messages t load-ignore-out-of-date-elc-files t load-show-full-path-in-messages t)' -no-autoloads -l cus-dep \ -f Custom-make-dependencies . Processing /home/steve/test-it/build/packages/xemacs-packages/Sun (No customization dependencies) XEmacs-214m -no-autoloads -vanilla -batch -eval '(setq stack-trace-on-error t load-always-display-messages t load-ignore-out-of-date-elc-files t load-show-full-path-in-messages t)' -l /home/steve/test-it/build/packages/package-compile.el -- cc-mode xemacs-base -- -f batch-byte-compile custom-load.el Loading /home/steve/programming/XEmacs/installed/21.4-mule/lib/xemacs-21.4.12/lisp/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/steve/test-it/build/packages/xemacs-packages/xemacs-base/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/steve/test-it/build/packages/xemacs-packages/cc-mode/auto-autoloads... Compiling /home/steve/test-it/build/packages/xemacs-packages/Sun/custom-load.el... Done gmake[2]: *** [custom-load.elc] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/steve/test-it/build/packages/xemacs-packages/Sun' gmake[1]: *** [Sun/bytecompile.target] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/steve/test-it/build/packages/xemacs-packages' gmake: *** [xemacs-packages/bytecompile.target] Error 2 Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Sat Mar 22 09:47:23 Looks like you haven't allowed for the case where a package doesn't have any defcustoms (we do have a couple of those). -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|