Re: pgg doesn't seem to like me

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

jam@jamux.com (John A. Martin) writes:

>>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson
>>>>>> "Re: pgg doesn't seem to like me"
>>>>>>  Sun, 06 Oct 2002 02:03:35 +0200
>
>     Simon> Uhm, are there any other outstanding PGG problems?  [...]
>     Simon> Or PGP/MIME and S/MIME problems in general?
>
> When compiling cvs gnus (about 12:30 GMT 8 Aug) atop XEmacs-21.4.8
> (xemacs21-nomule_21.4.8-2_i386.deb), Emacs complained about the
> following:
>
> mm-url.el:
>   ** the function encode-coding-string is not known to be defined.
>
> mm-util.el:
>   ** the function detect-coding-region is not known to be defined.
>
> pgg-parse.el:
>   ** reference to free variable pgg-parse-crc24
>   ** The following functions are not known to be defined: 
>     define-ccl-program, ccl-execute-on-string, pgg-parse-crc24-string
>
> pgg.el:
>   ** The following functions are not known to be defined: 
>     decode-coding-region, encode-coding-region

Gnus is written to not generate warnings under Emacs only, according
to the manual.  Those warnings are harmless, but if someone knows how
to avoid them, patches are welcome...

> What is a convenient unambiguous way to identify the particular cvs
> version used?  How come folks don't often seem to bother?

CVS revision of the files used is probably the only way.  If you
updated all files, CVS revision of lisp/ChangeLog is probably enough.
I guess (hope) people update to latest CVS before reporting problems.