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Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> I can barely start up the latest CVS versions of Oort.  I have to try
> over and over, and maybe one out of 10 times or so, gnus finally comes
> up.  When it doesn't start, either the XEmacs window completely
> disappears, or els I get the following error.  I'm using XEmacs 21.4.3
> under RedHat Linux 7.2.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Signaling: (invalid-function 67399686)
>   67399686("" #<compiled-function (file orig-file) "...(17)" [orig-file file nnmail-split-incoming nnml-save-mail nil nnmail-get-split-group (directory :path "/home/ljz/Groups/" :suffix ".in") nnml-active-number] 7> t)
>   gnus-byte-compile((lambda (file orig-file) (nnmail-split-incoming file (quote nnml-save-mail) (quote nil) (if ... nil ...) (quote nnml-active-number))))

You can get around the problem with (setq gnus-use-byte-compile nil).
If it works, probably there is a bug in the XEmacs byte-compile code.

ShengHuo