From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55884 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "Can't read partial active file" Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:36:02 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <8ykg4mbh.fsf@boost-consulting.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073698628 812 80.91.224.253 (10 Jan 2004 01:37:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:37:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4424@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jan 10 02:37:05 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Af83l-000342-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:37:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Af83H-0005Rg-00; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 19:36:35 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Af83B-0005Rb-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 19:36:29 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C8CE3A0058 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 19:36:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Af839-0007KF-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:36:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Af838-0007K7-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:36:26 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Af838-0000CL-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:36:26 +0100 Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h+i+1lYWQGT3sO/CyI1o7Q79Hkg= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55884 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55884 Steve Youngs writes: > |--==> "DA" == David Abrahams writes: > > DA> David Abrahams 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 www.boost-consulting.com