Re: Autoloads no longer working?

[Andreas Fuchs <asf@void.at>]

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On 2002-04-25, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> wrote:
> 	The file you are thinking about is installed by the standalone
>  gnus package in Debian, and not by the various flavours of emacsen.
> 
> 	Specifically, the file is
> 	/etc/emacs20/site-start.d/20gnus-init.el.
>  It is not installed for emacs21. And when it is run for emacs20, the
>  first thing it does to put the file path for the standalone gnus at
>  the beginning of the load path.

Strange, in my emacs installation, there is a
/usr/share/emacs21/lisp/gnus directory, which even contains files. It
seems like gnus-start from there gets loaded. My emacs installation
looks like:

,----
| ~ $ dpkg -l gnus emacs21 emacs21-el
| Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
| |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
| ||/ Name           Version        Description
| +++-==============-==============-============================================
| pn  gnus           <none>         (no description available)
| ii  emacs21        21.2-1         The GNU Emacs editor.
| ii  emacs21-el     21.2-1         GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files.
`----

As you can see, I have no gnus installed (gnus-bonus-el has the same
status as has gnus). I'm running out of ideas.

>  I am running oort gnus (as you can see from the headers) on
>  Debian with emacs21, and I have no problems with autoloads; I do not
>  think this is a just a simple Debian issue.

I agree in that this problem is not a simple one; but I do think this is
a debian issue (see my previous mail - when I suppress loading of the
user config file (I never touch my system-wide config), gnus features
are present).

Thanks,
-- 
Andreas Fuchs, <asf@acm.org>, asf@jabber.at, antifuchs

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