PATCH 21.5 I tracked down the source of the files that "make distclean" is not removing in the package tree. Those files are in the wrong place. Furthermore, only XEmacs 21.5 generates them; 21.4 gets it right. Try building packages with current XEmacs 21.5 CVS; you'll get both a xemacs-packages/hyperbole/auto-autoloads.el and a xemacs-packages/hyperbole/kotl/auto-autoloads.el, and furthermore you cannot load them both. A small fix to an obsolete function in autoload.el fixes the problem for me. Our package build system went to all the trouble of defining generated-autoload-file, and then we ignored it. lisp/ChangeLog addition: 2006-05-24 Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org&gt; * autoload.el (batch-update-autoloads): Only write to generated-autoload-file. xemacs-21.5 source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -uN Files affected: lisp/autoload.el Index: lisp/autoload.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/autoload.el,v retrieving revision 1.22 diff -d -u -r1.22 autoload.el --- lisp/autoload.el 2005/02/04 03:57:34 1.22 +++ lisp/autoload.el 2006/05/24 20:10:56 ＠＠ -1154,7 +1154,8 ＠＠ on the command line." (unless noninteractive (error "batch-update-autoloads is to be used only with -batch")) - (update-autoload-files command-line-args-left autoload-feature-prefix nil t) + (update-autoload-files command-line-args-left autoload-feature-prefix + generated-autoload-file t) (kill-emacs 0)) ;; Declare obsolescence -- Jerry James, Assistant Professor james(a)xemacs.org Computer Science Department http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/ Utah State University