Bug 11628 – xemacs has trouble finding its mule packages

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Georgi Georgiev 2002-12-05 09:06:11 UTC]

I have xemacs-21.4.9 and xemacs-packages-sumo-2002.09.19 installed.
The ways to reproduce the bug are:
1. start xemacs
2. Meta-X set-language-environment
3. Choose Japanese
4. XEmacs complains it "Cannot open load file: japan-util"
... now for the temporary workaround:
5. Meta-X load-file
6. /usr/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/mule-base/japan-util.elc
7. Try step 2 - it works now

XEmacs doesn't look at the /usr/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/mule-base
directory. Why?

[Comment 1 Rendhalver (RETIRED) 2002-12-11 02:02:13 UTC]

*** Bug 11933 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Rendhalver (RETIRED) 2002-12-11 02:09:32 UTC]

this problem is due to --package-path=/usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages being set
in the current ebuild

package-path is for setting a packages root and it stops the package path
searching dead in its tracks

this will guarantee /usr/lib/xemacs/mule-packages never gets found 

i will commit my new ebuild which WILL fix this problem and Bug 11933

[Comment 3 Rendhalver (RETIRED) 2002-12-15 18:08:00 UTC]

new ebuild commited to cvs should fix this bug

its ~arch masked right now will unmask it when i have confirmation that the
problem is solved

[Comment 4 Georgi Georgiev 2002-12-16 16:48:25 UTC]

Works as expected.
Might as well mark as FIXED.

[Comment 5 Rendhalver (RETIRED) 2002-12-16 18:41:25 UTC]

sounds good to me

thanks for testing it