Re: missing sha1-maximum-internal-length

[Adrian Lanz <lanz@fowi.ethz.ch>]

On 13 Jan 2004, yamaoka@jpl.org wrote:

>>>>>> In <iluzncs8bk6.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> 
>>>>>> 	Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
>
>> Adrian Lanz <lanz@fowi.ethz.ch> writes:
>
>>> One of the recent changes in CVS Gnus makes that
>>> sha1-maximum-internal-length is not defined after starting Gnus.
>>>
>>> When I try to send out a message to a news group, I get the error
>>> message "sha1: Symbol's value as variable is void:
>>> sha1-maximum-internal-length". After setting/defining the variable
>>> to the default value 500, sending out news works as before.
>
>> Can you post a backtrace?  The variable is defined in sha1-el.el,
>> which is supposed to be autoloaded by canlock.el, etc.  You are
>> loading gnus-load from .emacs, right?
>
> Probably, it is because sha1-maximum-internal-length is bound to
> nil in the message-canlock-generate function when sha1-el.el is
> autoloaded.  I've fixed it in CVS.

That solved the problem for me. Thanks for the prompt fix!

BTW and always on search of a sane configuration for my system: do you
think I have some special/wrong configuration, as nobody else on the
list claimed having had the sha-el problem?

Thanks, Adrian.