Re: Emacs load-path after update

[Ole Andre Birkedal]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Ole Andre Birkedal <oandre-b@online.no> 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?

Yes, there was very little detail about that, let me try to fill
in on that, sorry.
I am running gnus with mailcrypt just fine in the cvs compiled version
of Emacs, probably because it came with it. When I installed it, it
put gnus and mailcrypt in /usr/local/share/emacs/21.3.50/lisp, as you said.
The program I am trying to move is ERC, the IRC client for Emacs.
I have tried moving it into /usr/local/share/emacs/21.3.50/lisp, as well
as /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ with no luck.

> Note that there should be a file site-start.el and/or default.el.

Yes, I was thinking about this, since I have never (AFAIK) had any of
these files for ERC. But I looked around a bit, and there is a mailcrypt-init.el
in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/, maybe that could explain something?

> 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)

As I am not a very experienced Emacs user I can't fill in on very much more than
that. I don't know what more to tell you really, sorry. Hoper it was enough 
info anyway.
In advance, thanks. :-)

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