bug#19082: 24.4.50; seconds-to-time: Autoloading failed to define function time-add

[James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>]

>>>>> "GM" == Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

GM> You said:

GM>    I get the $subject error continuously since compiling git master.

GM> But your subject says "24.4.50":

Hmmm.  I was getting the error after trying several re-compiles,
including earlier versions in Gentoo portage.  I guess I failed to
recall exactly which I was at when I managed to send the bug report.

Whichever version I used, it showed the same symtom.

>> As it turned out, running with -nsl fixed it.
>> 
>> It looke like gnus added an el file with the same name as the one in
>> emacs, which was loaded instead of emacs' file.

GM> IIUC, a local shadow of something broke something?
GM> I don't think this is an Emacs problem.

>> So the real bug is that -nsl is not the default.

GM> But obviously we can't make that the default setting?

Why not?

It used to be necessary manually, in a site el or in .emacs, to add
subdirectories to the load path.  That makes it easy to install packages
which get infrequent use, and enable them as neeeded.

Now, the default breaks things.

I has to uninstall a language package some time back because it broke
gud when installed.  The ability to load it only when I want, w/o
breaking other emacs sessions is most valuable.

-JimC
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