Here is where I left off in case anybody wants to takes this up before me. On Windows, just build XEmacs without MAKEINFO defined to use external makeinfo.exe. This will default to MAKEINFO=$(XEMACS_BATCH_PACKAGES) -l texinfmt -f batch-texinfo-format in xemacs.mak. Best regards, Adrian cd c:\Hacking\cvs.xemacs.org\XEmacs\xemacs-21.5-clean\man\internals "c:\Hacking\cvs.xemacs.org\XEmacs\xemacs-21.5-clean\lib-src\i" "c:\Hacking\cvs.xemacs.org\XEmacs\xemacs-21.5-clean\src\xemacs.exe" -vanilla -batch -l texinfmt -f batch-texinfo-format internals.texi texinfo formatting c:\Hacking\cvs.xemacs.org\XEmacs\xemacs-21.5-clean\man\internals\internals.texi... Formatting Info file... Formatting Info file: ../../info/internals.info Converting internals.texi to Info format... Removing trailing whitespace from Info buffer... Formatting: Introduction ... Formatting: Authorship of XEmacs ... Formatting: CODING ... Formatting: SUPPORT ... Formatting: A History of Emacs ... Formatting: Through Version 18 ... Formatting: Epoch ... Formatting: Lucid Emacs ... Formatting: GNU Emacs 19 ... Formatting: GNU Emacs 20 ... Formatting: XEmacs ... Formatting: The XEmacs Split ... Formatting: Ben Wing's attempts ... Formatting: Jamie Zawinski's attempts ... Formatting: XEmacs from the Outside ... Formatting: The Lisp Language ... Formatting: XEmacs from the Perspective of Building ... Formatting: Build-Time Dependencies ... Formatting: The Modules of XEmacs ... Formatting: A Summary of the Various XEmacs Modules ... NMAKE: fatal error U1077: '"c:\Hacking\cvs.xemacs.org\XEmacs\xemacs-21.5-clean\lib-src\i"' : return code '0x1' Stop. Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Sun Sep 25 23:26:46 -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/