Carsten> The problem is that building tm depends on being able to Carsten> load the auto-autoloads from rmail, and vice-versa. As a Carsten> result, bbdb can't be built, as this depends on the Carsten> auto-autoloads from tm. One could put all those files (ie, ../rmail/*.el) into the tm PRELOADS list, right? Have you tried doing "make AUTOLOAD_PATH=../rmail ../rmail/auto-autoloads" or some such incantation before building tm? -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."