Michael> Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; writes: Michael> What does Michael> (startup-find-load-path) Michael> return? $ xemacs -no-autoloads -vanilla -batch -eval '(message "%s" (startup-find-load-path))' (/Users/malcolmp/prefix/share/xemacs/site-lisp/ /Users/malcolmp/prefix/share/xemacs-21.5-b28/lisp/mule/ /Users/malcolmp/prefix/share/xemacs-21.5-b28/lisp/) So the directory is present when XEmacs starts, but isn't there during package compilation. Expanding on what I said in my last message, it looks like the offending code is this from package-compile.el: (let ((depth (cond ;; #### All hail Mr. Preprocessor! ;; OK, OK, his code is under development; FIXME when it's done. ((boundp 'paths-load-path-depth) ; XEmacs 21.1 paths-load-path-depth) ((boundp 'paths-core-load-path-depth) ; XEmacs > 21.2.41 paths-core-load-path-depth) (t (error "Somebody has been messing with paths-find-*!"))))) (setq load-path (paths-find-recursive-load-path (list lisp-directory) depth))) What then is the right way to reset the load-path to only refer to the core and mule directories? Malcolm -- Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org&gt; _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta