Carsten Leonhardt <leo(a)arioch.oche.de&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: Colin> What Makefile has this REQUIRES line? Is this something that is in Colin> distributed with the BBDB package, something in XEmacs packages, or Colin> something that you did? It's something I put in to get the bbdb package to build. Taking it out yields the following: $ make XEMACS=/usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-21.0/src/xemacs /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-21.0/src/xemacs -no-autoloads -batch -l ../../package-compile.el -- bbdb edit-utils gnus mh-e rmail supercite vm mail-lib xemacs-base -- lisp/bbdb-rmail.el Loading /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-21.0/lisp/auto-autoloads... Loading /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/libs/xemacs-base/auto-autoloads... Loading /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/libs/mail-lib/auto-autoloads... Loading /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/comm/vm/auto-autoloads... Loading /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/comm/supercite/auto-autoloads... Loading /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/comm/rmail/auto-autoloads... Loading /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/comm/mh-e/auto-autoloads... Loading /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/comm/gnus/gnus/lisp/auto-autoloads... Loading /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/oa/edit-utils/auto-autoloads... Loading /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/comm/bbdb/lisp/auto-autoloads... Compiling /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/comm/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-rmail.el... While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/local/work/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/comm/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-rmail.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "tm-view")) Done