Re: newbye questions [the nnir-article-group issue]

[Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr]

Eric Abrahamsen writes on Tue 13 Jun 2017 08:41:
 > Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr writes:
 > 
 > > Eric Abrahamsen writes on Sun 11 Jun 2017 14:37:
 > >  > Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr writes:
 > >  > 
 > >  > >>Fran?ois Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> writes:
 > >  > >>
 > >  > >>> Le 05/06/2017 ? 12:07, Eric Abrahamsen a ?crit :
 > >  > >>>> Fran?ois Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> writes:
 > >  > >>>> 
 > >  > >>>>> Le 05/06/2017 ? 01:33, Eric Abrahamsen a ?crit :
 > >  > >>>>>> Fran?ois Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> writes:
 > >  > >>>>>>
 > >  > >>>>>>> Bonjour,
 > >  > >>>>>>>
 > >  > >>>>>>> Ijust discovered org-mode for emacs and I want to explore the
 > >  > >>>>>>> capabilities of this mode for LaTeX documents.
 > >  > >>>>>>>
 > >  > >>>>>>> I have a few preliminary questions:
 > >  > >>>>>>>
 > >  > >>>>>>> 1- I installed org-mode from ELPA and I get a warning message
 > >  > >>>>>>> when I open a *.org file:
 > >  > >>>>>>> Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Autoloading failed to
 > >  > >>>>>>> define function nnir-article-group")
 > >  > >>>>>>>
 > >  > >>>>>>> What does it mean and how to get rid of this message.
 > >
 > > [...]
 > >
 > >  Hi Eric, thanks much for the feedback.
 > >
 > >  > That was very useful, thanks for the detailed report! Looks like it's
 > >  > the same as this:
 > >  > 
 > >  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177978
 > >  > 
 > >  > Looks like uninstalling an emacs-goodies package might do the trick?
 > >
 > > Yes it did!  Also, the error is not present on another machine (with
 > > Fedora 23) on which I could perform a test, with simply the command
 > > 'emacs' and a void .emacs file -- and of course the emacs-goodies
 > > packages installed on that machine:
 > >
 > > Org mode version 9.0.8 (9.0.8-elpa @ /root/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170606/)
 > >
 > > GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) of
 > > 2016-04-11 on buildvm-25.phx2.fedoraproject.org
 > >
 > > Linux fruc.u-strasbg.fr 4.8.13-100.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 9
 > > 14:51:40 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 > >
 > >> Anyway, you're meant to be loading nnir.el from
 > >> emacs/<version>/lisp/gnus/nnir.el, not site/lisp/gnus-bonus.
 > >
 > > So in your opinion what is the best to do in order to avoid this error
 > > message, and, above all, the possible consequences related to this
 > > problem? -- so far, I have not noticed any, but who knows...
 > >
 > > - get rid of the file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus-bonus/nnir.el?
 > > - get rid of the dir /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus-bonus/altogether?
 > > - something else?
 > >
 > > Because uninstalling the emacs-goodies packages sound rather
 > > extreme...  NB: I uses gnus very rarely.
 > 
 > Perhaps you could doctor your load-path early in the init process, so
 > that /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp comes later, and is shadowed by
 > emacs/<version>/lisp? On my machine the relevant load-path elements are
 > ordered as:
 > 
 > /usr/local/share/emacs/26.0.50/site-lisp
 > /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
 > /usr/local/share/emacs/26.0.50/lisp
 > 
 > If that's the case on your machine as well, perhaps you could remove
 > emacs/site-lisp, and re-add it at the end of the list. That has the
 > potential to break other things, though...

Yes, that's the same for me.  I'll try to investigate along that
line.  Thanks again for your time.

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