Re: site-lisp overwritten by installed XEmacs Packages on Debian

Hello Micha! Hi Jim, do you have any advice on this matter (see below)? >>>>> "Micha" == Micha Wiedenmann <mw-u1(a)gmx.de&gt; writes:

Micha> I am using XEmacs 21.4.6 (package version 21.4.6-8) on Debian Woody. Micha> I started XEmacs with `-q' and `M-x load-library RET pop3'. A buffer Micha> containing `/usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/gnus/pop3.elc' opened Micha> | ;ELC Micha> | ;;; compiled by root(a)a193177.studnetz.uni-leipzig.de on Thu Jun 6 18:34:15 2002 Micha> | ;;; from file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus/pop3.el Micha> | ;;; emacs version 21.4 (patch 6) "Common Lisp" XEmacs Lucid. Micha> | ;;; bytecomp version 2.27 XEmacs; 2000-09-12. Micha> | ;;; optimization is on. Micha> | ;;; this file uses opcodes which do not exist in Emacs 19. Micha> I thought `/usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lisp/mail-lib/pop3.elc' Micha> should have opened instead. Micha> My conclusion: `/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus/pop3.el' is provided Micha> by the Debian `gnus' package necessary for Emacs but not for XEmacs. Micha> `/usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lisp/mail-lib/pop3.elc' is provided Micha> by the Debian `xemacs21-basesupport' package. I think that the gnus Micha> package shadows some already for XEmacs installed files. You are right. The XEmacs gnus package does NOT contain pop.el, because the XEmacs mail-lib package has the XEmacs-specific pop3.el support. Micha> `pop3.el' for Emacs (provided by the `gnus' package) Micha> differs from `pop3.el' for XEmacs (provided by Micha> `xemacs21-basesupport-el') so the functions and variables Micha> differ (eg. there is a `pop3-extended-response-end' not Micha> defined in Emacs version of `pop3.el') Micha> I don't know what's the correct way to thread this. I think other Micha> packages may have the same problems. <13 lines deleted by Adrian Aichner> Micha> XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" configured for `i386-debian-linux'. <59 lines deleted by Adrian Aichner> 21.4.13 will soon be released. Even upgrading to 21.4.12 may be worth it.

See http://www.de.xemacs.org/Releases/#Stable and http://www.de.xemacs.org/Releases/21.4.12.html#summary http://www.de.xemacs.org/Releases/21.4.11.html#summary http://www.de.xemacs.org/Releases/21.4.10.html#summary http://www.de.xemacs.org/Releases/21.4.9.html#summary http://www.de.xemacs.org/Releases/21.4.8.html#summary http://www.de.xemacs.org/Releases/21.4.7.html#summary in particular. Boy your site-lisp packages are eclipsing everything under the sun! Is this the way debian sets things up? Hi Jim, do you have any advice on this matter? Micha, what are your values of -> (getenv "EMACSPACKAGEPATH") nil

configure-package-path -> ("~\\.xemacs" "" "c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\site-packages" "c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\mule-packages" "c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages")