MS> What? Where? The above statement is simply false: The info MS> documentation node "Startup Paths" explains precisely how things MS> work. Yes, this is true: --8<------------------------schnipp------------------------->8--- Moreover, XEmacs expects late hierarchies in the subdirectories `site-packages', `mule-packages', and `xemacs-packages' (in that order) of the `<root>/lib/xemacs' subdirectory of one of the installation hierarchies. (If you run in-place, these are direct subdirectories of the build directory.) Furthermore, XEmacs will also search these subdirectories in the `<root>/lib/xemacs-<VERSION>' subdirectory and prefer directories found there. --8<------------------------schnapp------------------------->8--- So, it appears to be my fault (as I said (see the subject), I missed the change, 'cause AFAIR, packages/xemacs-packages used to be a valid path). Holger -- --- http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/~schauer/ --- "Perl was the first language to integrate the Unix environment into itself." -- Per Abrahamsen in comp.emacs.xemacs