The function `find-function' fails to find functions which have been dumped into the executable: mfabian＠blackwell:~$ xemacs -q -vanilla -batch --eval "(find-function 'fill-paragraph)" The library "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/fill" is not in the path. xemacs exiting . mfabian＠blackwell:~$ it looks like during dumping, the path to these functions in the directory where XEmacs has been build has been written into the executable: mfabian＠blackwell:~$ strings /usr/X11R6/bin/xemacs | grep BUILD | grep fill /usr/src/packages/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/fill.elc mfabian＠blackwell:~$ When this directory is removed later, XEmacs still searches there and not in the directory where the files have been installed. `find-function' works fine for all functions which have not been dumped, it fails only for the ones dumped into the executable. As a workaround I tried to dump XEmacs again at the final location: mkdir -p /usr/share/xemacs/21.4.4/src mkdir -p /usr/share/xemacs/21.4.4/lib-src cp /usr/lib/xemacs/21.4.4/i386-suse-linux/DOC /usr/share/xemacs/21.4.4/lib-src/ cp /usr/src/packages/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.4/src/temacs /usr/share/xemacs/21.4.4/src/ cp /usr/src/packages/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.4/Installation /usr/share/xemacs/21.4.4/ cd /usr/share/xemacs/21.4.4/src/ ./temacs -nd -batch -l ../lisp/loadup.el dump Loading ../lisp/loadup.el... Using load-path (/usr/share/xemacs/21.4.4/lisp) Using module-load-path (/usr/share/xemacs/21.4.4/modules) Loading very-early-lisp... Loading /usr/share/xemacs/21.4.4/lisp/dumped-lisp.el... Loading /usr/share/xemacs/21.4.4/lisp/backquote.elc... [...] Loading /usr/share/xemacs/21.4.4/lisp/loadhist.elc... Loading /usr/share/xemacs/21.4.4/lisp/loaddefs.elc... Loading site-load... Loading site-wide packages for dumping... Loading site-wide packages for dumping...done Loading disp-table... Loading site-load ...done Finding pointers to doc strings... Finding pointers to doc strings...done Warning: doc lost for function standard-display-european. Warning: doc lost for function standard-display-underline. Warning: doc lost for function standard-display-8bit. Warning: doc lost for function standard-display-graphic. Warning: doc lost for function standard-display-ascii. Warning: doc lost for function make-display-table. Warning: doc lost for function describe-current-display-table. Warning: doc lost for function standard-display-default. Warning: doc lost for function describe-display-table. Warning: doc lost for function standard-display-g1. This is usually because some files were preloaded by loaddefs.el or site-load.el, but were not passed to make-docfile by Makefile. Loading site-init... Dumping under the name xemacs This does indeed remove the above problem, `find-function' now finds dumped functions like `fill-paragraph' as well. But as can be seen above, there were warnings about lost doc-strings during my try to dump again and indeed, `M-x describe-function <function>' doesn't show the doc-string of the functions mentioned in the above warnings any more. I.e. I certainly did something wrong when trying to dump XEmacs again. Probably dumping XEmacs again isn't the right strategy to remove the hard coded paths to the original source directory anyway. At best this is a silly workaround. Probably I am doing something seriously wrong. Do you have any idea how to enable `find-function' to still find dumped functions like `fill-paragraph' even if the directory where XEmacs has been built is removed? There must be a `correct' way to do this. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian(a)suse.de&gt; http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。