Sorry for not following Mike's changes more closely, but I can't load any of the standard packages with the current 21.5 head and I can't find the cause. I build with --prefix=/Users/malcolmp/prefix and standard packages are in /Users/malcolmp/prefix/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages. This worked until recently, but now xemacs-packages is not part of the load path. Is this directory still supported? The following is the transcript of -debug-paths running from the build directory: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- silver:~/builds/xemacs/objdirs/gnome malcolmp$ ./src/xemacs -vanilla -debug-paths startup-setup-paths arguments: inhibit-packages: (early) inhibit-site-lisp: nil called-early: nil emacs-roots: ("/Users/malcolmp/builds/xemacs/objdirs/gnome/" "/Users/malcolmp/prefix/") emacs-data-roots: ("/Users/malcolmp/builds/xemacs/objdirs/gnome/" "/Users/malcolmp/prefix/") user-init-directory: "~/.xemacs/" configure-package-path: nil lisp-directory: "/Users/malcolmp/builds/xemacs/objdirs/gnome/lisp/" site-directory: "/Users/malcolmp/prefix/lib/xemacs/site-lisp/" early-package-hierarchies and early-package-load-path: nil nil late-package-hierarchies and late-package-load-path: nil nil last-package-hierarchies and last-package-load-path: nil nil load-path: ("/Users/malcolmp/prefix/lib/xemacs/site-lisp/" "/Users/malcolmp/builds/xemacs/objdirs/gnome/lisp/") module-directory: nil site-module-directory: "/Users/malcolmp/prefix/lib/xemacs/site-modules/" Info-directory-list: ("/Users/malcolmp/builds/xemacs/objdirs/gnome/info/" "/Volumes/Development/prefix/info/" "/sw/share/info/" "/sw/info/" "/usr/share/info/") exec-directory: /Users/malcolmp/builds/xemacs/objdirs/gnome/lib-src/ exec-path: ("/Volumes/Development/prefix/bin/" "/sw/bin/" "/sw/sbin/" "/bin/" "/sbin/" "/usr/bin/" "/usr/sbin/" "/usr/X11R6/bin/" "/Users/malcolmp/builds/xemacs/objdirs/gnome/lib-src/") doc-directory: "/Users/malcolmp/builds/xemacs/objdirs/gnome/lib-src/" data-directory: "/Users/malcolmp/builds/xemacs/objdirs/gnome/etc/" data-directory-list: ("/Users/malcolmp/builds/xemacs/objdirs/gnome/etc/") _XF86BigfontQueryFont: could not attach shm segment --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Malcolm -- Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org&gt;