Re: "Can't read partial active file"

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> |--==> "DA" == David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
>   DA> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>   >>After updating Gnus from CVS this morning and byte-recompiling it with
>
> [...]
>
>   DA> Note: this makes Gnus completely unusable under Gnu emacs; I can't
>   DA> enter any groups.  It works great under XEmacs, though.  What could
>   DA> the problem be?
>
> I don't know if any of what I'm about to mention will fix your
> problems, but I'd like to point out a couple of things that I hope you
> are already aware of...
>
>   o When building Gnus you should always do so via `make'.  By just
>     byte-recompiling the lisp directory you will, amongst other
>     things, be missing out on re-building the autoloads (which could
>     have changed since your last build).
>
>   o A Gnus built with GNU/Emacs _*CAN NOT*_ be used in XEmacs and vice
>     verse.  The two Emacsen generate different incompatible
>     byte-code. [1] 

I haven't been using make, but I have been using two separate gnus CVS
images for Gnu and X emacs in order to keep the bytecode separate.
It's always worked until now.

Is there a make command I can use to build Gnus for non-Cygwin
installations of [X]emacs on Windows?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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