Re: invoking different versions of Gnus

Re: invoking different versions of Gnus

[Norbert Koch]

Patrick Drechsler <patrick.drechsler@gmx.net> writes:


> Tried this at the beginning as well as at the end of my ~/.emacs but
> Emacs 21.3 is still loading Gnus 5.9...
>
> Any other ideas?

Hmm, what does your load-path look like?  How do you call gnus?

norbert.

Re: invoking different versions of Gnus

[Norbert Koch]

Patrick Drechsler <patrick.drechsler@gmx.net> writes:


>> Hmm, what does your load-path look like?
>
> ,----[ load-path ]
> | ("/usr/local/gnus" "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/preview" "~/.dotemacs/marks_dot_files/misc/" "/usr/local/matlab/java/extern/EmacsLink/lisp" "~/.dotemacs_cvs/" "/usr/local/share/emacs/21.3.50/site-lisp" "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp" "/home/patrick/cvssoftware/pemacs/site-lisp" "/home/patrick/cvssoftware/pemacs/leim" "/home/patrick/cvssoftware/pemacs/lisp" "/home/patrick/cvssoftware/pemacs/lisp/toolbar" ...)
> `----
>


Shit, I told you wrong or not exact enough

(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/gnus/lisp")

might work better.

norbert.

Re: invoking different versions of Gnus

[Patrick Drechsler]

Hi Norbert,

Norbert Koch wrote on 22 Aug 2003 14:27:27 MET:

> Shit, I told you wrong or not exact enough
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/gnus/lisp")
>
> might work better.

I hardly dare to answer: doesn't work either...

Patrick
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Re: invoking different versions of Gnus

[Louis C. Candell]

Patrick Drechsler <patrick.drechsler@gmx.net> writes:

> Hi Louis,
>
> Louis C. Candell wrote on 22 Aug 2003 17:01:25 MET:
>
>> This is what I'm using, and it seems to work (edit gnus-CURRENT to
>> the name of a gnus directory contained within
>> '/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/'):
>>
>> (setq load-path (cons "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus-CURRENT" load-path))
>> (require 'gnus)
>
> Didn't work either...
>
> Thanks anyway to Reiner, Norbert and Louis. I'll just try recompiling
> everything over the weekend. Maybe I just screwed up something during
> the installation process.

Wait, are you trying to use gnus v5.10.3, because your headers show
just that.


> From: Patrick Drechsler <patrick.drechsler@gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: invoking different versions of Gnus
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:19:12 +0200
> Organization: Linux Private Site
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux)

User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux)

Do the following:

M-x gnus-version

Should say Gnus v5.10.3

-- 
Louis C. Candell

Re: invoking different versions of Gnus

[Patrick Drechsler]

Hi,

thanks again to all for your help. I reinstalled Emacs and Gnus over
the weekend and now everything is working fine!

Patrick
-- 
Black Holes result from God 
dividing the universe by zero.

Re: invoking different versions of Gnus

[Patrick Drechsler]

Norbert Koch wrote on 22 Aug 2003 13:12:25 MET:

> Patrick Drechsler <patrick.drechsler@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Thanks for the tip. I included your line in the beginning of my
>> ~./emacs but it didn't help :-(
>
> Move it closer to the end.

Doesn't work either...

> load-path C-j

Learned another feature,  thanks!

Patrick
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