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

  > Well, with that symlink in place, ~/.xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus
  > is there. XEmacs didn't notice it, though. Perhaps it doesn't follow
  > symlinks when doing the autoload scan.

Seems to work fine here.

(locate-library "gnus")
 => "/home/steve/.xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/gnus.elc"

(featurep 'gnus-autoloads)
 => t

$ file /home/steve/.xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus
 => /home/steve/.xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus: symbolic link to
       /tmp/steve/gnus

(member "/tmp/steve/gnus/" load-path)
 => nil

(member "/home/steve/.xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/" load-path)
 => ("/home/steve/.xemacs/site-packages/lisp/gnus/" (rest of my
       load-path elided)

I don't understand where yours has gone wrong, Steven.

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