Ray> Loading /apps/public/XEmacs/lib/mule-packages/lisp/egg-its/dumped-lisp.el... Stephen> Er, WTF? Packages should not be dumped IMHO, and _especially_ the Stephen> Japanese-only input methods should be dumped only at sites that use Stephen> them by explicit choice of the admin. I assume you are using Stephen> everything straight off the XEmacs FTP site? Raymond> Everything straight from the XEmacs FTP site. And, since I can't read Raymond> Japanese, I did nothing to explicitly dump Japanese input methods. Stephen> I'm inclined to consider this a package bug. Raymond> Any hints on how to get past this? Even though I'm illiterate, it is Raymond> rather cute to see messages and stuff in other languages. FWIW, I just reinstalled egg-its-1.13, leim-1.11 mule-base-1.30 and skk-1.11 since that's what I had handy. 21.4.0 builds fine now. Haven't tested it yet, but I confident it works well enough. :-) Ray