Ok, here is the modified Makefile: VERSION = 1.08 AUTHOR_VERSION = 1.95 MAINTAINER = Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl(a)sdm.de&gt; PACKAGE = ecb PKG_TYPE = regular REQUIRES = xemacs-base semantic eieio fsf-compat edit-utils jde mail-lib \ eshell ediff xemacs-devel speedbar hideshow CATEGORY = standard ELCS = ecb-compilation.elc ecb-cycle.elc ecb.elc ecb-eshell.elc ecb-face.elc \ ecb-help.elc ecb-layout.elc ecb-mode-line.elc ecb-navigate.elc \ ecb-util.elc tree-buffer.elc ecb-buffertab.elc ecb-speedbar.elc \ ecb-upgrade.elc ecb-layout-defs.elc ecb-tod.elc silentcomp.elc \ ecb-create-layout.elc ecb-examples.elc ecb-autogen.elc ecb-jde.elc EXTRA_SOURCES = NEWS README RELEASE_NOTES STANDARD_DOCS = t #DATA_1_FILES = $(HTML_FILES) #DATA_1_DEST = $(PACKAGE)/html PRELOADS = -l overlay -l compile -l timer -l ecb-util -l ecb-eshell \ -l ecb-layout -l tree-buffer -l esh-mode -l em-dirs -l jde-help \ -l semantic -l semantic-load -l semanticdb -l sendmail \ -l ediff-init -l hideshow -l speedbar include ../../XEmacs.rules But i'm not sure if i really have to add "-l hideshow -l speedbar" to the PRELOADS? What exactly has to be added to PRELOADS and what to REQUIRES? And here is what i get after doing: make clean make [bash-2.05b]/c/Programme/XEmacs/cvs-package-tree/packages/xemacs-packages/ecb Creating ./_pkg.el /C/Programme/XEmacs/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/xemacs -vanilla -batch -eval '(setq stack-trace-on-error t load-always-display-messages t load-ignore-out-of-date-elc-files t load-show-full-path-in-messages t)' -no-autoloads \ -eval "(setq autoload-package-name \"ecb\")" \ -eval "(setq generated-autoload-file \"./auto-autoloads.el\")" \ -l autoload -f batch-update-autoloads ecb-compilation.el ecb-cycle.el ecb.el ecb-eshell.el ecb-face.el ecb-help.el ecb-layout.el ecb-mode-line.el ecb-navigate.el ecb-util.el tree-buffer.el ecb-buffertab.el ecb-speedbar.el ecb-upgrade.el ecb-layout-defs.el ecb-tod.el silentcomp.el ecb-create-layout.el ecb-examples.el ecb-autogen.el ecb-jde.el _pkg.el Generating autoloads for ecb/_pkg.el... Wrote /c/Programme/XEmacs/cvs-package-tree/packages/xemacs-packages/ecb/auto-autoloads.el Wrote /c/Programme/XEmacs/cvs-package-tree/packages/xemacs-packages/ecb/auto-autoloads.el /C/Programme/XEmacs/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/xemacs -no-autoloads -vanilla -batch -eval '(setq stack-trace-on-error t load-always-display-messages t load-ignore-out-of-date-elc-files t load-show-full-path-in-messages t)' -l /c/Programme/XEmacs/cvs-package-tree/packages/package-compile.el -- xemacs-base semantic eieio fsf-compat edit-utils jde mail-lib eshell ediff xemacs-devel speedbar hideshow -- -l overlay -l compile -l timer -l ecb-util -l ecb-eshell -l ecb-layout -l tree-buffer -l esh-mode -l em-dirs -l jde-help -l semantic -l semantic-load -l semanticdb -l sendmail -l ediff-init -l hideshow -l speedbar -f batch-byte-compile auto-autoloads.el Loading /C/Programme/XEmacs/lib/xemacs-21.4.13/lisp/auto-autoloads... # bind ( stack-trace-on-signal debug-on-signal stack-trace-on-error debug-on-error) signal(wrong-type-argument (stringp nil)) # bind (data error-symbol) signal-error(wrong-type-argument (stringp nil)) # bind (error-data) normal-top-level() # (condition-case ... . error) # (catch top-level ...) Wrong type argument: stringp, nil xemacs exiting . make: *** [auto-autoloads.elc] Error 255 Does this help you? Thanks a lot, klaus -----Original Message----- From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:stephen＠xemacs.org] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 1:26 PM To: Berndl, Klaus Cc: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: Re: Question about adding additonal requirments in the Makefile of th e ECB-package Klaus> /C/Programme/XEmacs/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/xemacs -no-autoloads Klaus> -vanilla -batch -eval '(setq stack-trace-on-error t Klaus> load-always-display-messages t Klaus> load-ignore-out-of-date-elc-files t Klaus> load-show-full-path-in-messages t)' -l Klaus> /c/Programme/XEmacs/cvs-package-tree/packages/package-compile.el Klaus> -- xemacs-base semantic eieio fsf-compat edit-utils jde Klaus> mail-lib eshell ediff xemacs-devel speedbar hideshow -- -l Klaus> overlay -l compile -l timer -l ecb-util -l ecb-eshell -l Klaus> ecb-layout -l tree-buffer -l esh-mode -l em-dirs -l Klaus> jde-help -l semantic -l semantic-load -l semanticdb -l Klaus> sendmail -l ediff-init -l speedbar - hideshow -f You seem to have "-", not "-l", to load hideshow. Is that a typo in the Makefile, or in the post, or a make bug of some kind? Klaus> batch-byte-compile auto-autoloads.el -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.