Re: flycheck on Emacs24

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: haines@haines.att.net
> Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 16:54:06 -0400
> 
> I downloaded a flycheck 20140422.657 tar into
> /usr/local/share/flycheck. Unarchiving it creates a directory in which
> there is flycheck-pkg.el, flycheck.el, flycheck.info.
> 
> I didn't know how to install these files, and so tried copying them into
> ~/elisp.
> 
> I added a line in ~/.elisp: 
> 
>    (add-hook 'after-init-hook #'global-flycheck-mode)
> 
> But when I try to initialize flycheck with M-x global-flycheck-mode
> I get:
> 
>   M-x global-flycheck [No Match]
>  
> How should I have installed the file? There weres no directions.

My crystal ball says the directory where you have the flycheck *.el
files doesn't appear in load-path.  If so, you should add it to that
list.