Karl M Hegbloom <karl(a)cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: SL> karlheg <karl(a)cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu&gt; writes in SL> xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: SL> Because it shouldn't need to. We need more details. Did you SL> create a zero length finder-inf.el, or did you touch an SL> existing version? Did anything else unusual happen while you SL> were building? That is correct. Nor should one be shipped in the tarballs. This sounds like the same problem Jan Hebler is reporting and I can't duplicate. Which version of XEmacs? What happened when the finder database was supposed to be rebuilt? What error message did you get? Did anything else unusual happen when you were building?