Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: Hmm. That's a bug in `make beta'. As I understood it, `make beta' is supposed to work like `make World' in X11 -- rebuild everything from scratch. `make beta' is probably obsolete now, though. It's original purpose was to make it easier to apply beta upgrade patches. That really isn't necessary now that source file dependencies are computed rather than hand done and the amount of code/documentation has been greatly streamlined.