Re: installation woes: oort gnus on win2k (ntemacs 21.2)

Re: installation woes: oort gnus on win2k (ntemacs 21.2)

[Kai Großjohann]

sivaramn@sunguru.com (Sivaram Neelakantan) writes:

> nnimap-possibly-change-group: Symbol's value as variable is void:
> gnus-server-method-cache

It seems that you got pretty far already.  I think that problem could
be solved.  Do you want to try again?

You could M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET before the error happens,
then make the error happen, then look at the resulting backtrace.
(Or post it here.)  You could also try to remove the *.elc files
before starting Emacs so that you get a more informative backtrace.
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Re: installation woes: oort gnus on win2k (ntemacs 21.2): addendum

[Kai Großjohann]

sivaramn@sunguru.com (Sivaram Neelakantan) writes:

> I edit the _emacs file, add the load-path 
> (setq load-path (cons "c:/emacs-21.2/ognus-0.13/lisp" load-path)) just
> before the custom-set-variables(where the first references to gnus
> start) & it works again!
>
> Now, A normal emacs session launches oort 0.13 version when i say 
> M-x gnus
>
> Strange,very.  By a combination of laziness & hubris, my _emacs
> is a big mess, 99% copied from usenet postings,so I really dont 
> know where to start to identify the source of the problem.

I think you were frobbing load-path too late.  Some parts of Gnus had
been loaded already, then you frobbed load-path to point to the new
version, then the rest of Gnus was loaded.  So you had half an old
Gnus and half a new Gnus in your Emacs.

Down that path lies madness.
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Re: installation woes: oort gnus on win2k (ntemacs 21.2)

[Peter Davis]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com> writes:
>
>> Well, I'm on Windows, so I have a tendency to bypass the makefiles
>> anyway.  Here's what I did to "install" Oort manually:
>
> Oort comes with make.bat and make-x.bat.  These might be useful for
> Windows users.

Oh.

Nevermind.


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