Yoshiki Hayashi <yoshiki(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: I got a similar problem today, after upgrading (I hadn't done so for quite a while). My setup is the following: /usr/local/src/XEmacs-21.2 -> xemacs cvs archive /usr/local/src/xemacs-packages -> packages cvs archive / compilation directory /usr/local/src/xemacs -> compilation directory /usr/local/lib/xemacs -> package installation directory (by symlinks) When running the latest XEmacs in place, it doesn't find /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages. I get the following at startup: emacs-roots: ("/usr/local/src/dxemacs/" "/usr/local/") configure-package-path: nil early-packages and early-package-load-path: nil nil late-packages and late-package-load-path: ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/" <no /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages here> "/usr/local/src/xemacs-packages/" --> this is wrong ... and all stuff below this directory. Obviously, XEmacs took my package source directory for what it is not. After renaming it to XEmacs-Packages (note the uppercase) and reinstalling in order to update the symlinks, everything went fine again. BTW, I'd like someone to clearly and slowly explain to me what means "running the packages in place" after all. I still don't understand what this means. What was not possible before, and is possible now ? To me, running in place would mean the ability to find the packages in my compiled cvs source tree withtout having to install them (whether by symlinks or not). But that's not that hey ? -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / EPITA / LRDE mailto:didier＠lrde.epita.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel. +33 (1) 44 08 01 77 94276 Kremlin-Bicêtre cedex Fax. +33 (1) 44 08 01 99