Cannot open load file" "timer", when byte compiling

Cannot open load file" "timer", when byte compiling

[Steinar Bang]

I did:
	cvs -d :pserver:gnus@quimby.gnus.org:/usr/local/cvsroot co gnus
	cd gnus
	./configure
	make EMACS=xemacs
(using XEmacs 20.4), I got the following error messages all over the
place: 

While compiling toplevel forms in file /home/sb/src/install/gnus/lisp/nnvirtual.el:
  !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "timer"))

The files that got this compilation message were not byte compiled.  I 
checked that nnvirtual.el got successfully byte compiled from my last
checkout from the pgnus repository (Gnus v5.8.0, as reported by
gnus-version). 

Re: Cannot open load file" "timer", when byte compiling

[John Markus Bjorndalen]

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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. 


-- 
	// John Markus Bjørndalen

Re: Cannot open load file" "timer", when byte compiling

[Hrvoje Niksic]

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.

Re: Cannot open load file" "timer", when byte compiling

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr>:

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

Not just nnvirtual.el.  *Lots* of files in the 2.8.1 (or whatever) CVS 
checkout.

But the interesting bit is that the last pgnus checkout I've got
(which I'm running now), did _not_ require timer.el.

Re: Cannot open load file" "timer", when byte compiling

[Kai Großjohann]

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

> 	// John Markus Bjørndalen
                         ^
Is anybody else seeing \370 at that spot in John's message?  It is
(correctly) labeled iso-8859-1 and CTE is 8bit, so why does Gnus not
show this character?

kai
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A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.

Re: Cannot open load file" "timer", when byte compiling

[Kai Großjohann]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> John Markus Bjorndalen <johnm@cs.uit.no> writes:
> 
> > 	// John Markus Bjørndalen
>                          ^
> Is anybody else seeing \370 at that spot in John's message?  It is
> (correctly) labeled iso-8859-1 and CTE is 8bit, so why does Gnus not
> show this character?

Never mind.  It is labeled iso-8851-1, not iso-8859-1.  Ook.

kai
-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.

Re: Cannot open load file" "timer", when byte compiling

[John Markus Bjorndalen]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Never mind.  It is labeled iso-8851-1, not iso-8859-1.  Ook.

I had a typo in my .gnus.el... fixed now :) Aparently this typo caused
a Microsoft server to go insane.

-- 
	// John Markus Bjørndalen

Re: Cannot open load file" "timer", when byte compiling

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr>:

> 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.

But where do I find fsf-compat?

Google found me 
	http://dev.linuxppc.org/RPMS/users-gdt/noarch/xemacs_package-fsf-compat-1.05-1a.noarch.html
which would work for me with SuSE 6.2, but none of the ftp URLs to the 
actual RPMs are working.

I did not find anything about fsf-compat on http://www.xemacs.org/

I did find something on rpmfind.net...
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/powertools/6.1/sparc/usr_lib_xemacs_xemacs-packages_lisp_fsf-compat_Tree.html
but quite _what_ this was, I'm not sure.

Re: Cannot open load file" "timer", when byte compiling

[Jan Vroonhof]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> I did not find anything about fsf-compat on http://www.xemacs.org/

ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages

Jan