[1676] in testers
Re: dash perl entry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 31 21:39:47 1991
From: lwvanels@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 91 21:39:52 -0400
To: ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: vanharen@MIT.EDU, testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [1671]
Reply-To: lwvanels@mit.edu
In [1671] ckclark writes:
>
> Chris> I don't even get that far. If I start up "emacs -q" on a
> Chris> VAX, I get "Warning: lisp library (/usr/athena/lib/elisp)
> Chris> does not exist". It should be
> Chris> /usr/athena/lib/gnuemacs/lisp, no?
>
>The directory /usr/athena/lib/elisp has been created to hold things like
>discuss.el, etc. If you examine the load-path you get, you should see
>that it looks first in /usr/athena/lib/elisp, then in
>/usr/athena/lib/gnuemacs/lisp. If you are getting that error, then it
>means that the system packs did not have that directory at the time you
>ran ``emacs -q''. Try again. I'm not sure in which order the VAX emacs
>binary and /usr/athena/lib/elisp directory were installed on the packs,
>but they are there now, so perhaps you are also a victim of bad timing.
>:-)
They both appeared at the same time, when the srvd's with 7.3D were release.
What happened was that he had a 7.3C workstation running with 7.3D packs,
and /usr/athena/lib had been brought local due to a mkserv he had run.
Because of this, the directory didn't exist, and emacs complained about it.
This will go away one you update to 7.3D. Additionally, in 7.3E we will be
creating that symlink if necessary when the new packs are attached, even if
the update is not immediately taken. This should prevent this problem in
the future
-Lucien
