files 'mercurial.el' and 'mq.el' are in cwd. I use '-L .' so that mq.el will succeed with "(require 'mercurial)". Why doesn't it work? xemacs -batch -L . --no-site-file -f batch-byte-compile mq.el Loading dired-mule... Reading directory /home/nbecker/fedora/mercurial/devel/mercurial-1.0/contrib/... Reading directory /home/nbecker/fedora/mercurial/devel/mercurial-1.0/contrib/...done Compiling /home/nbecker/fedora/mercurial/devel/mercurial-1.0/contrib/mq.el... While compiling toplevel forms in file /home/nbecker/fedora/mercurial/devel/mercurial-1.0/contrib/mq.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "mercurial")) Done _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta