Re: w3-mode, gnus & emacs21.

[Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "KG" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

 KG> It fails at a very early stage, at a spot which does not seem to
 KG> have anything to do with the etc/PROBLEMS entry.  "./configure"
 KG> seems to run okay, but the subsequent "make" fails, with the
 KG> following messages:

I didn't realize it was a build problem.  Is there a problem actually
running it if you compile by hand or use Emacs 20-compiled files
(e.g. Debian's)?  It did work for me to the extent I used it.

 KG> I tried to find the right `nil' which is supposed to be a keymap, but
 KG> failed.

It's in the widget library.  I forget which map, but it should be
obvious from a backtrace.  Remove the bogus setting of it in the
compilation driver.  Actually, remove any such settings.

[Using such drivers is normally not a good idea.  I don't do it to
build the development W3 (which means the one in CVS may not work).  I
had to do quite a lot of work to ensure that Gnus 5.9 built properly
by compiling independent files so that Emacs could bootstrap and not
have maintenance surprises from changing Gnus.  Real errors in W3 and
Gnus came to light from noting all the compiler warnings and DTRT,
rather than trying to suppress them.  Compiler changes and appropriate
coding conventions reduce the noise from warnings in such packages; I
don't remember which changes are in the mythical Emacs 21 compiler.]