Stephen> Ah, beautifully done. I see what's happening. dump-paths.elc is Stephen> using the standard algorithms to discover the roots, and since you've Stephen> told it one lives in /usr/local with $datadir==/usr/share, it checks Stephen> that, and discovers it's correct. Why it doesn't prefer run-in-place Stephen> I'm not sure. Because a substantial number of people requested this behavior. It used to be the other way around. No single order is right for everyone, unfortunately, but I'm reasonably sure more people prefer the one we have. In any case, there'll be great moaning and howling if it changes. The fundamental philosophical problem, I think, is that people run an XEmacs in-place that they later "make install." This kind of situation is really only well-supported for a vanilla configure run. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla