Gnus v5.10.6 not working on GNU Emacs 21.3.1

Gnus v5.10.6 not working on GNU Emacs 21.3.1

[Fabrice Niessen]

Hi,

I've many troubles trying to use Gnus v5.10.6 (downloaded from official
site) in GNU Emacs 21.3.1.

While my ~/.gnus worked in Emacs when I had Gnus v5.9.0, it does not
anymore, directly stating upon startup:

    You should byte-compile Gnus
    Loading gnus-start...done
    Loading gnus-demon...done
    Loading gnus-agent...
    if: Symbol's value as variable is void: gnus-article-compface-xbm


1. If I add the following code to my .gnus ...

    (defvar gnus-article-compface-xbm
    (eq 0 (string-match "#define" (shell-command-to-string "uncompface -X")))
    "Non-nil means the compface program supports the -X option.
    That produces XBM output.")
    (require 'gnus-art)

... I go a little further: I see the *Group* buffer, but I can't enter
in any of my nnfolders (in this example, the `mail.misc' folder):

    Retrieving newsgroup: nnfolder:mail.misc...
    gnus-summary-mode: Symbol's function definition is void:
    mm-enable-multibyte-mule4


2. If I add the following code to my .gnus ...

    (defun mm-enable-multibyte-mule4  ()
      "Enable multibyte in the current buffer.
    Only used in Emacs Mule 4."
      (set-buffer-multibyte t))
    (defalias 'mm-enable-multibyte-mule4 'ignore)

    (require 'mm-util)

... I now can enter in my `mail.misc' folder, but can't get out anymore
(by pressing `q'). Aaarrrggghh!

    Retrieving newsgroup: nnfolder:mail.misc...
    Fetching headers for nnfolder:mail.misc...done
    Making sparse threads...done
    Sorting threads...done
    Generating summary...done
    Loading gnus-salt...done
    Loading gnus-async...done
    gnus-summary-update-info: Symbol's value as variable is void:
    gnus-newsgroup-forwarded


I know my tries are really brute hacks, as I don't know the whole system
good enough, and as I'm not (yet) a Lisp programmer.

Can someone help me making this configuration (latest Gnus on latest
Emacs) work?

Many thanks,
  Fabrice Niessen

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Re: Gnus v5.10.6 not working on GNU Emacs 21.3.1

[Jesper Harder]

Fabrice Niessen <fni@missioncriticalit.com> writes:

> I've many troubles trying to use Gnus v5.10.6 (downloaded from official
> site) in GNU Emacs 21.3.1.
>
> While my ~/.gnus worked in Emacs when I had Gnus v5.9.0, it does not
> anymore, directly stating upon startup:
>
>     You should byte-compile Gnus
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This message tells you what the problem is.  Run ./configure && make
(or make.bat on ms-windows) to byte-compile Gnus.

-- 
Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>

Re: Gnus v5.10.6 not working on GNU Emacs 21.3.1

[Fabrice Niessen]

... Still have one error: `No such function: nntp-request-create-group'

    Sending via mail...
    (...)
    221 closing connection - goodbye!
    Opening nnfolder server on archive...done
    Mark set
    Wrote d:/users/fni/home/Mail/archive/mail/MyFirstName
    while: No such function: nntp-request-create-group
    Opening nnfolder server...done
    (...)
    Saving file d:/users/fni/Mail/mail/MyFirstName MyLastName...

It happens when I write a message, and want to save it in the folder
`mail.MyFirstName MyLastName' (space in the folder name), with the

    ;; "Gcc:"-chooser, from Christoph Conrad
    (defvar header-gcc-history nil)
    (defun my-choose-gcc()
      (interactive)
      (let* (;; if this "group" is choosen the default "Gcc" remains
             (default "nnfolder:")
             ;; if this "group" is choosen the default "Gcc" is deleted
             (delete (concat default "Q"))
             ;; else the choosen group is inserted as "Gcc:"
             (groups (append gnus-newsrc-alist (list (list default 'dummy)
                                                     (list delete  'dummy))))
             (group (completing-read "Gcc: "
                                     groups
                                     nil t default 'header-gcc-history))
             (completion-ignore-case t))
        ;; input?
        (if (not (equal default group))
            (progn
              (message-remove-header "Gcc" t)
              (if (not (equal delete group))
                  (message-add-header (concat "Gcc: " group)))))))

    (add-hook 'message-send-hook 'my-choose-gcc)

    ;;}}}

This worked before, with Gnus v5.9.0 (and I don't /think/ having imported
other side-effects since then). Any idea on how to resolve this?

Best regards,
  Fabrice Niessen

___________________________________________
Fabrice Niessen - fni@missioncriticalit.com
Pre-sales, Network and Software Engineer
M i s s i o n   C r i t i c a l   I T
Phone ... +32 2-757.10.15
Fax ..... +32 2-759.27.60