Re: loading gnus creates *Group* buffer

[Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au>]

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

  > Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au> writes:
  >> Seems to work fine here.

  > It looks like you made ~/.xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus a symlink
  > rather than making ~/.xemacs/site-packages a symlink 

Only because I was too lazy to create the proper hierarchy at the
other end of the link.  It wouldn't make any difference, though.

  > Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing, I have:

  >   ~/.xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus

  >     symlinked to

  >   ~/usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus

  > The latter contains a working Gnus installation built from a recent
  > CVS snapshot. auto-autoloads.el(c) is there.

  > When I start up XEmacs as xemacs -q, I get

For reasons that I'm not sure of, when you start XEmacs like that you
won't get the package directories under $HOME/.xemacs in your
load-path. 

Try again, loading XEmacs normally.

  > $ file /home/seh/.xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus
  > => bash: file: command not found

That's Cygwin for ya.

  > Could this be a Cygwin problem? 

Oh, how I'd love to say "yes" here, alas, I honestly don't know
because I have never had anything to do with Cygwin.  It sits on top
of Windoze, so it is bound to be poorly designed and bug-ridden. :-)

  > Is there a variable (besides the obvious load-path) that I can
  > inspect to see if XEmacs includes ~/.xemacs/site-packages as part
  > of its initial path to find these autoload files?

 $ xemacs -debug-paths -kill > ~/xemacs-full-paths.out 2>&1

Whatever paths that XEmacs knows about on a normal start up will be in
~/xemacs-full-paths.out.

 $ xemacs -q -debug-paths -kill > ~/xemacs-q-paths.out 2>&1

Will tell you the paths that XEmacs knows about when started with
'-q'. 

OK, now I have to ask the question... Why don't you just install Gnus
to the default location?  Or configure Gnus to install under
~/.xemacs/site-packages ?

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