John> But the command John> ./configure --prefix=/scratch/palmieri John> isn't good enough; John> Why is this? --prefix and --site-includes/--site-libraries (sp?) are orthogonal options. --prefix says which non-standard location to install XEmacs in; --site-* say which non-standard locations in which to find (some) libraries and their includes. I would guess that most people who use one do not use the other, although your situation is certainly common enough. And some people will have need for both (since their site-* variables will point to versions that for one reason or another should not be in the $prefix hierarchy). So the current options should remain as they are. If you really want it, somebody might be willing to implement a convenience combination option. However, I am not sure that the semantics are sufficiently obvious that it would be convenient for everyone in your situation (all of you would have to adopt the convention that all your personal stuff lived under one prefix, and otherwise in the same tree of "usual places"; I'm not sure that either of those makes that much sense given the variation across individuals and systems). - University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."