Without this patch I get a dump failure. lisp/ChangeLog addition: 2006-08-10 Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org&gt; * subr.el: Move string-to-char-list to obsolete.el. * obsolete.el (string-to-char-list): Move obsolete definition here, so dumping can succeed. 21.5 source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -u Files affected: lisp/obsolete.el lisp/subr.el Index: lisp/subr.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/subr.el,v retrieving revision 1.38 diff -a -u -u -r1.38 subr.el --- lisp/subr.el 2006/08/10 12:28:42 1.38 +++ lisp/subr.el 2006/08/11 01:25:48 ＠＠ -928,9 +928,6 ＠＠ "Return a list of characters in STRING." (mapcar #'identity string)) -;; < 21.5 compatibility, eg. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/201524#c2 -(define-obsolete-function-alias 'string-to-char-list 'string-to-list) - (defun string-to-vector (string) "Return a vector of characters in STRING." (mapvector #'identity string)) Index: lisp/obsolete.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/obsolete.el,v retrieving revision 1.18 diff -a -u -u -r1.18 obsolete.el --- lisp/obsolete.el 2005/01/28 02:58:41 1.18 +++ lisp/obsolete.el 2006/08/11 01:25:48 ＠＠ -357,6 +357,9 ＠＠ (make-obsolete 'find-non-ascii-charset-region "use (delq 'ascii (charsets-in-region START END)) instead.") +;; < 21.5 compatibility, eg. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/201524#c2 +(define-obsolete-function-alias 'string-to-char-list 'string-to-list) + ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; window-system objects ;; the functionality of column.el has been moved into C