* Steven E Harris <seh@panix.com> writes:

  > Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au> writes:
  >> Why don't you just install Gnus to the default location?

  > For years, I was running an XEmacs in a location that I didn't have
  > write permission to, so I got in the habit of keeping my local
  > packages (including Gnus CVS builds) under my home directory. I chose
  > ~/usr/local/ as the root to feed to the Gnus 'configure' script and it
  > came up with ~/usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages as the root for
  > Gnus.

OK, that's fair enough.

  >> Or configure Gnus to install under ~/.xemacs/site-packages ?

  > Well, now I'd consider doing that, but I jumped in on this thread
  > because I didn't know about these special directories under ~/.xemacs
  > that would enable the autoload behavior. You explained how they're
  > supposed to work, and I've been trying to convince myself (and you in
  > the process) that these directories are not inspected with my current
  > Cygwin XEmacs 21.4.13. It's a good idea. I just wished it worked here.

I'm at a loss.  It should _just work_.  I'll see if I can find the
answer for you, but in the meantime just use this...

(let* ((gnusdir (file-name-as-directory
		 (expand-file-name 
		  "usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus"
		  (getenv "HOME"))))
       (autos (expand-file-name "auto-autoloads.elc" gnusdir))
       (customs (expand-file-name "custom-load.elc" gnusdir)))
  (setq load-path (push gnusdir load-path))
  (when (file-exists-p autos)
    (load-file autos))
  (when (file-exists-p customs)
    (load-file customs)))

And keep installing Gnus in the way/place you are used to.

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