Re: Problem with the latest CVS build

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Gunnar Evermann <ge204@eng.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
> 
> > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> > 
> > > Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > [ ... ]
> > > 
> > > Why don't you install the normal Gnus package and then add the CVS
> > > Gnus?  Just put the CVS Gnus directory first in load-path, and Bob
> > > will be your uncle.
> > 
> > I have done exactly that, but the standard building procedure that
> > gets downloaded with CVS doesn't know about my normal load path, and
> > it can't find mailheader in the load path that *it* tries to use.
> 
> 
> strange, can you post the output of something like:
>   xemacs -batch -q -no-site-file -eval '(print load-path)' | tr ' ' '\n' | grep gnus
> 
> 
> I get:
> "/home/tigger3/ge204/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/pgnus-cvs/"
> "/tools/emacs/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/gnus/"

I get this:


Yes, no output.  That's because there's nothing Gnus-like in my
load-path.  And now I think I understand what Kai Großjohann meant
when he said (above) to "... install the normal Gnus package ...".  He
did *not* mean to simply install Gnus-5.8.x in my local area that gets
pointed to the `load-path' that I set in my `.emacs', which is what I
have been doing for over a year.  What he *did* mean was to do an
official XEmacs package installation of the Gnus package.  I'm pretty
sure that once I do this, I'll have what I need in my load-path when I
do the CVS build ... correct?

So ... in order for the CVS build to work, the standard XEmacs Gnus
package that it replaces has to be installed, and at least one file
that was explicitly removed from the CVS build (namely
`mailheader.el') needs to be referenced from the standard Gnus build
that the CVS build is supposed to supersede.

But something seems wrong about this: what happens once the CVS build
finally becomes the official Gnus build?  Then, there won't be any
`mailheader.el' anywhere, which means that Gnus as written today wouldn't
work under XEmacs ... right?

So therefore, either `mailheader.el' needs to become part of the CVS
build once again, or else it has to become part of some other
installable XEmacs package, or else Gnus needs to be rewritten so as
not to need `mailheader.el' at all.


But anyway, thanks very much.  Your question about `load-path' helped
me to see what I have to do to get my CVS working for the short term.


> [ ... ]

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