From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28476 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai=?iso-8859-1?q?_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Updating to gnus 5.8.2 Date: 29 Dec 1999 21:34:07 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <19991209145632.A673@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> <9t9so1cnr9p.fsf@mraz.iskon.hr> <19991223132128.A3170@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> <9t9puvxwy5u.fsf@mraz.iskon.hr> <19991229200038.A3308@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165317 30063 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:55:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:55:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2D7D051E for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:16:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB28792; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:38:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:36:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA18484 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:35:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13276D051F for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:34:19 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id VAA09787; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:34:09 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id VAA02275; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:34:08 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-6) id VAA05851; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:34:07 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f Original-To: Pieter Wenk In-Reply-To: Pieter Wenk's message of "Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:00:38 +0100" Original-Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28476 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28476 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 -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.