Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com&gt; writes: I must be misunderstanding you, because that already works for me! I run XEmacs in-place like this all the time. (The only problem is with $topdir != $srcdir, but that just means configure should be tweaked to create links for ../xemacs-packages and ../site-packages, just like it does for ../lisp. I create them by hand ATM) i.e. tar xzf xemacs-<version>.tar.gz | cd xemacs-<version> | tar xzf xemacs-sumo-<date>.tar.gz | This can be made into one big | tarball. ./configure make ./src/xemacs works (at least on Unix, maybe it is different under windows) What remains to be done (AFAICS) is: - Make $srcdir != $topdir work - Copy the contents of the package trees over at "make install" time. - make the actuall xemacs-<version>-all.tar.gz tarball and release the core as xemacs-<version>-core.tar.gz in the future. - Update docs Jan