21.5-b26: autoloads already loaded errors?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> writes:

    Raymond> Is this expected behavior.

    sjt> No.  What does M-x list-load-path-shadows have to say?

    Raymond> M-x list-load-path-shadows says:

[ perfectly normal-looking shadows removed ]

OK, that's working correctly.

Do you build your personal pcl-cvs using the XEmacs package framework,
or do you just byte-compile all the files and stick them in the right
place?

    Raymond> I see I have a few more shadows than I thought.

Are they packages that you use frequently?  Do they also produce
autoloads warnings?

    Raymond> 21.5-b25 didn't complain, and I definitely haven't
    Raymond> changed anything since installing 21.5-b26.  What does
    Raymond> "play tricks" with load-paths mean?  I haven't changed
    Raymond> that in a long time either.

"Play tricks" means using setq, add-to-list, etc on the load-path
variable.  It's very unusual nowadays, but there could theoretically
be something left over from your .emacs of the age of Emacs 18.55 or
so.:-)

There's been a bit of configure hacking since 21.5.25.  The only thing
that looks remotely plausible would be Jerry James's "autoconf 2.59
political correctness" patch, but that shouldn't change any semantics.

Mike Sperber's package configuration patch was added in 21.5.25.

Do you use any package-path configuration (specifically
--package-prefix or the now-obsolete --package-path) in your configure?

    Raymond> Oh, yes, I forget to mention that the first thing I tried
    Raymond> was xemacs -vanilla.  This, of course, produces no
    Raymond> warnings.  If I click the menu item to load my init
    Raymond> files, it stops with an error that it can't load one of
    Raymond> my personal el files.  This, naturally, doesn't happen
    Raymond> when I leave off the -vanilla.

That's very strange.

Please send a bug report with M-x report-xemacs-bug, and also the
contents of that error message about your personal file.


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