Mats Lidell wrote: Probably because of this top-level sexp in message.el, which the stack trace shows is being loaded: (defcustom message-use-idna (and (condition-case nil (require 'idna) (file-error)) (mm-coding-system-p 'utf-8) (executable-find idna-program) (string= (idna-to-ascii "räksmörgås") "xn--rksmrgs-5wao1o") t) [...] Yeah, that's not making sense to me, either. It looks like the (require 'idna) is succeeding; otherwise, we wouldn't be evaluating (executable-find idna-program). So I don't understanding why the defcustom in idna.el doesn't set idna-program. But then I can't say I understand the compiler much. Still, what package are you putting idna.el in? Is that package listed in the REQUIRES line in the gnus Makefile? mike _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Mats Lidell: The Gnus code is unprepared to handle (require 'idna) throwing a non-file error. The packages are compiled with -no-autoloads, and #'eval-when is not a dumped macro (though it should be, I intend to move it to bytecomp-runtime soon), so (require 'idna) throws an error when it attempts to evaluate your form. That said, I can’t reproduce your exact error, and find it surprising that idna-program is nil. All the same, try it without the #'eval-when, that is: (unless (find-coding-system 'utf-8) (error 'invalid-operation "`idna.el' requires support for the utf-8 coding system")) It’s equivalent to your load and eval WHEN, anyway. -- ‘Liston operated so fast that he once accidentally amputated an assistant’s fingers along with a patient’s leg, […] The patient and the assistant both died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality.’ (Atul Gawande, NEJM, 2012) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta