Re: Agent categories gone.

[Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch>]

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> Hmmm.... What's the value of gnus-agent-directory just before you
> executed (gnus-category-read)?

gnus-agent-directory's value is "~/News/agent/"

> 1) Start gnus as usual.
> 2) Load gnus-agent.el so that gnus-category-read isn't compiled. (M-x
>    load-library<RET>gnus-agent.el<RET>)
> 3) Set debug-on-signal (M-: (setq debug-on-signal t))
> 4) Execute gnus-category-read (M-: (gnus-category-read))

This gives a *different* result (formatted by hand):

((header (agent-predicate . false))
 (all (agent-predicate . true)
  (agent-groups "comp.lang.forth" "gnu.emacs.sources"))
 (default (agent-predicate . high)
 (agent-score-file . file)))

> At this point, you should have been thrown into the debug buffer.
no

Strange, very strange. This looks to me as if the compiled gnus-agent.elc
file would not correspond to the gnus-agent.el file. Hmm
cd /usr/local/gnus
./configure

one output line makes me wonder if things go right:
checking where .elc files should go... $(datadir)/emacs/site-lisp

make

Despite the line shown above the *.elc files in /usr/local/gnus/lisp/
do get rewritten.

restart emacs and gnus
Same result as before: Different output of (gnus-category-read) before
and after loading gnus-agent.el. I have double checked gnus-agent-directory.
It is the same in both cases.

load-path's value is  ("/usr/local/gnus/lisp" ... )
ls -l /usr/local/gnus/lisp/gnus-agent.el*
[ ... ]   128524 Mar  4 06:10 /usr/local/gnus/lisp/gnus-agent.el
[ ... ]    93531 Mar  4 14:03 /usr/local/gnus/lisp/gnus-agent.elc

I don't understand what's happening here.

Robert