From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs load-path after update Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:27:28 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <848yufviqn.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <87znmv4ulw.fsf@online.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050161461 22984 80.91.224.249 (12 Apr 2003 15:31:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:31:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 12 17:31:00 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194My3-0005yQ-00 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:30:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 194Mxj-0004eo-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:30:39 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1e95b.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e95b.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.233.91) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1050161376 12859594 217.225.233.91 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rw0tkVI6t7q0ioAqkFnF7eQRB6A= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111908 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8409 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8409 Ole Andre Birkedal writes: > I downloaded the latest version of Emacs from > CVS which is 21.3.50.2 and compiled it from source. > My previous version was 21.2.x which was in Debian > unstable, and the load-path was /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ > but default. When installing this new Emacs the load-path > was not the same, I did make install and found out that it > made something in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/, This is normal. By default, Emacs is installed in /usr/local. This means binaries go in /usr/local/bin, Lisp files in /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp, and so on. The Debian package installs in /usr, so the binary goes in /usr/bin and so on. Additionally, the Debian packages have added magic so that both Emacs and XEmacs will find the right Lisp files. To this end, the *.el files are stored in the same directory for both Emacs and XEmacs, but the *.elc files are stored in different directories. (The *.elc files are usually incompatible between Emacs flavors.) > but when I put the programs from the old load-path in that directory > they didn't load, or work at all. It's difficult to say what has happened from this description. Can you given an example of a "program" that you took from the old load-path and put it into the new site-lisp directory? Note that there should be a file site-start.el and/or default.el. This file contains (these files contain) commands that are necessary for setting up the add-on packages. It's not enough to drop a random *.el file into the right directory, you also have to configure Emacs to actually use that file. -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)