Hi, I found the same problem and did a major work around in re-dumping XEmacs. I also had to modify a file which gives or returns the XEmacs root dir to point to the install folder. I have mentioned this the Stephen Turnbull and I guess you are another person finding this problem. This however does not happen in Emacs. I plan to do some study and I have requested Stephen to indicate who the DUMP related expert is (Like Mr.Preprocessor - I like it : -) ). with regards, dhruva PS: Sorry for sending attachments and flooding your mail boxes for those not interested. ---------------------- Forwarded by Dhruva KRISHNAMURTHY/dassault-systemes on 10/24/2001 04:36 PM --------------------------- Dhruva KRISHNAMURTHY 09/26/2001 05:31 PM To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; cc: Subject: Re: Installation on NT- Debug Paths (Document link: Dhruva KRISHNAMURTHY) Hi Stephen, I did achieve the final build with the install paths!! I modified the make file and dump-paths.el to get it going. Infact you can achieve this by just modifying dump-paths.el. I hard coded the value for "roots". Steps I took: 1. Built XEmacs the regular striaght forward way. 2. Modified the xemacs.mak ( attached ) 3. Created a Folder where I XEmacs install directory is pointing ( as per config.inc ). 4. Modified dump-paths.el by hard coding the variable "roots" ( around line 37 ) and removed dump-paths.elc. 5. Copied the "lisp" folder from build location i.e., where I am building from to the abouve folder. This is the location where the final lisp files will be installed. 6. Deleted the xemacs.exe which was build by step 1. 7. Did a make. 8. make install. A crude way to make the elegant XEmacs behave the way I expected!! I am sure there are more elegant ways which I will explore. I am learning the makefiles in the process!! (See attached file: xemacs.mak) (See attached file: dump-paths.el) with regards, dhruva