Re: Updating to gnus 5.8.2

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

What you did seems to be digging in the XEmacs package system
internals a bit.  Here's what I did (with Emacs 20.5); it is
completely separate from the package system.  The idea is that you
install the normal XEmacs package for Gnus, and then you do the
following installation of Gnus 5.8 in addition to that.

Choose a directory for Gnus, say ~/sw/gnus-5.8.2.  Unpack the tar ball
and compile it:

    cd ~/sw
    tar xvpfz /tmp/gnus-5.8.2.tar.gz
    cd gnus-5.8.2
    ./configure
    make EMACS=xemacs

Add the lisp directory to the load-path, by putting the following line
in ~/.emacs:

    (add-to-list 'load-path "~/sw/gnus-5.8.2/lisp/")

The only part missing is to set the search path for Info.  If you have
an environment variable $INFOPATH, add the texi directory to that, by
putting lines like the following in ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc or
whatever is the right place for your shell.  Adjust in the obvious way
for csh-like shells.

    INFOPATH=$HOME/sw/gnus-5.8.2/texi:$INFOPATH
    export INFOPATH

If you have no such environment variable, set Info-directory-list
instead, like so:

    (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "~/sw/gnus-5.8.2/texi/")

Most Emacsen need Info-default-directory-list, but IIRC this variable
has been deprecated in XEmacs 21 in favor of Info-directory-list.
    
kai
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