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John Markus Bjorndalen <johnm@cs.uit.no> writes:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> 
> [..]
> > While compiling toplevel forms in file /home/sb/src/install/gnus/lisp/nnvirtual.el:
> >   !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "timer"))
> [..]
> 
> Quick-and-dirty-fix: I just grabbed timer.el from the Emacs 20.4
> distribution that came with RedHat 6.1 and dropped it in with the
> gnus source. XEmacs 20.4 didn't come with a timer.el.

No no no no no!  Don't do that.  timer.el from FSF Emacs will _not_
work with XEmacs.

A real quick&dirty fix would be to get the "fsf-compat" XEmacs
package, which includes a timer.el implementation that uses itimers.

nnvirtual.el should be fixed to not require timer.el under XEmacs.