>>>> "Vaclav" == Vaclav Barta
<vbar(a)comp.cz> writes: 
    Vaclav> next episode of my "Syntax highlighting turned off on
    Vaclav> startup" saga: I've accidentally discovered that (say)
    Vaclav> cperl-mode.el *does* color the buffer opened as the first
    Vaclav> programming-language buffer since starting xemacs, *if*
    Vaclav> there isn't any cperl-mode.elc . I wouldn't call it a
    Vaclav> solution, but certainly it's a viable work-around...
Have you verified that's the issue by recompiling cperl-mode and
discovering that now it doesn't work any more?  This smells a lot like
a build problem somewhere that the elcs do not properly get rebuilt.
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