If I insert (require 'gnuserv) in ~/.xemacs/init.el which is load by ~/.emacs emacs shows the following warning: Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/home/rose/.xemacs/init.el': Symbol's function definition is void: temp-directory To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace. if I start 'emacs --debug-init' I get the message: ͂͂͂͂Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function temp-directory) (temp-directory) (concat "^" (temp-directory) "/Re\\|/draft$") eval((concat "^" (temp-directory) "/Re\\|/draft$")) custom-initialize-reset(gnuserv-temp-file-regexp (concat "^" (temp-directory) "/Re\\|/draft$")) custom-declare-variable(gnuserv-temp-file-regexp (concat "^" (temp-directory) "/Re\\|/draft$") ("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnuserv/gnuserv.elc" . -5217) :type regexp :group gnuserv) require(gnuserv) eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<2>> nil "/home/rose/.xemacs/init.el" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 35120 load-with-code-conversion("/home/rose/.xemacs/init.el" "/home/rose/.xemacs/init.el" nil nil) load("/home/rose/.xemacs/init.el" nil nil t) load-file("/home/rose/.xemacs/init.el") eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/home/rose/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 253 load-with-code-conversion("/home/rose/.emacs" "/home/rose/.emacs" t t) load("~/.emacs" t t) ... It seems to be a know error, compare http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542476 or http://www.nabble.com/emacs-info-reader-for-octave-td25925024.html Reproducible: Always root@condor:/root(11)# emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.1 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:00:05 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p33 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.3, 3.1.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de fr" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/zugaina /usr/local/portage/layman/dotnet /usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/layman/lordvan /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/perl-experimental /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi administrator afs aiglx alsa amd64 amrr ao aotuv apache2 asf aspell atlas auctex audacious audiofile automount bash-completion beagle berkdb bjam blas bluetooth bonobo boo boost branding bzip2 c++ cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi chm cli consolekit corba cracklib cran crypt cups curl cxx daap dbus device-mapper dga dia divx djvu dlloader dmi doc dri ds3490 dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dxr3 dynagraph eds effects elf emacs emboss encode epiphany esd evo examples exif expat extra extras fam fame ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk foomaticdb fortran fpx fuse galago garmin gd gdal gdbm geolocation geos gif gimp gimpprint ginac glade glib glitz gml gmp gnokii gnome gnome-keyring gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphics graphviz gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk guile hal hardened harness hddtemp hdf hdf5 hlapi http httpd hvm iconv icq icu id3 ide imagemagick imap innodb ipod ipv6 irda irmc isdnlog ithreads jabber java java5 java6 jbig john jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kerberos kexi keyring kvm ladspa lame lapack latex lcms ldap libffi libgda libnotify libsamplerate lirc lm_sensors lua lzo lzw mad maildir mailwrapper math matroska mikmod mmx mmxext mng mod modules mono motif mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mtp mudflap multilib musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf netpbm network networkmanager nfs nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ntp numarray numeric nvidia obex objc ocaml octave odbc ogdi ogg ole openexr opengl openmp pae pam pcre pda pdf perl pipechan plotutils plugins png podcast policykit posix postgres postscript ppds pppd preview-latex proj projectx pstricks pulseaudio python qhull qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs rhythmbox rle rpc rrdcgi rrdtool samba sasl science sdl server session slang slp smbclient smp sndfile snmp soup sox speex spell spl sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stlport subtitles subversion suexec svg sysfs szip t1lib tcl tcpd tex theora threads thunar thunderbird tidy tiff tk tntc truetype unicode usb userlocales utempter v4l2 vorbis wav webdav webdav-serf webkit wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xemacs xext xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" DVB_CARDS="cx8800 cx88xx tda1004x tda10045 tda10046 saa713" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse " KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de fr" NETBEANS_MODULES="ide websvccommon nb harness apisupport groovy gsf j2ee java xml" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
The README file says that under GNU Emacs you need gnuserv-compat instead of gnuserv: ,---- | This is a standalone release of gnuserv for GNU Emacs, requiring | compatibility code (gnuserv-compat.el) to make it work. `---- Therefore I'm inclined to close this bug as invalid. (Also, the site-init file autoloads the "gnuserv-start" command, so the "require" shouldn't be necessary at all. Doesn't it work for you without it?)
