Re: (require 'filename) doesn't find the file

[tomas]

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On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:17:37AM +0100, hector wrote:
> The file called BASENAME.el that I want to (require) is in the load-path.
> If I add to it the line
> 
> (provide 'basename)
> 
> it works.
> 
> But if I remove the line when I try to compile it says:
> 
> syntax.el:26:1:Error: Required feature `basename' was not provided
> 
> The part that I think isn't working:
> If FEATURE is not a member of the list `features', then the feature
> is not loaded; so load the file FILENAME.
> 
> Why doesn't it find the file even if it does not contain a (provide)?

It finds the file. But the file doesn't keep its promise of "providing"
the feature.

See it this way: a "require"d file might find out that something is
broken. Then it would return without "provide"-ing the feature, to
signal that sorry, this feature isn't available after all.

In short: just end your file with (provide 'basename), as you noticed
up there. Or do you see a problem with that?

regards
- -- t
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