Re: Autoloads no longer working?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Andreas Fuchs <asf@void.at> writes:

> On 2002-04-25, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> wrote:
>> 	The file you are thinking about is installed by the standalone
>>  gnus package in Debian, and not by the various flavours of emacsen.
>> 
>> 	Specifically, the file is
>> 	/etc/emacs20/site-start.d/20gnus-init.el.
>>  It is not installed for emacs21. And when it is run for emacs20, the
>>  first thing it does to put the file path for the standalone gnus at
>>  the beginning of the load path.
>
> Strange, in my emacs installation, there is a
> /usr/share/emacs21/lisp/gnus directory, which even contains files. It
> seems like gnus-start from there gets loaded.

We were talking about /etc/emacs*/site-start.d, not
/usr/share/emacs21/lisp/gnus...

Here's a way to find out what's happening:

* delete gnus-start.elc (actually, just rename it)
* put (debug) near the beginning of the file gnus-start.el

Then start Emacs.  You should get a backtrace.  From this backtrace,
it should be possible to see which code loads it.

Also, you can put (message "foo") statements in various places in the
site-wide init files to see what's happening.

kai
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