Bug 221295 – app-editors/emacs-22.2-r1: Cannot open load file: vc-svn

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Martin Mokrejš 2008-05-11 09:08:26 UTC]

Upgrade to this version cased the following message in Messages buffer.
If I ignor ethis and edit some of my files I cannot save them. Luckily, at least the temp file with filename starting with # exists. I have even done 'rm -rf ~/.emacs'!

(emacs index.html)
Loading disp-table...done
Loading tool-bar...done
Loading image...done
Loading tooltip...done
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo (source)...
Loading dictionary-init (source)...done
Loading /usr/libexec/emacs/21.4/i686-pc-linux-gnu/fns-21.4.1.el (source)...done
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo (source)...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading sgml-mode...done
vc-find-backend-function: Cannot open load file: vc-svn

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2008-05-11 10:14:24 UTC]

This looks like an Emacs 21 startup sequence to me.
What is the output of "eselect emacs list"?

[Comment 2 Martin Mokrejš 2008-05-11 10:25:44 UTC]

$ eselect emacs list
Available GNU Emacs symlink targets:
  [1]   emacs-21 *
  [2]   emacs-22
$

;-)

[Comment 3 Martin Mokrejš 2008-05-11 11:55:14 UTC]

OK, this fixed that for me:

eselect emacs set 2

Don't know whether the handling of multiple emacs version could be improved. I have installed:

 app-editors/emacs
    selected: 21.4-r15 22.2-r1 

[Comment 4 Ulrich Müller 2008-05-11 12:31:10 UTC]

> Don't know whether the handling of multiple emacs version could be improved.

Well... Our decision was to keep the selected version and _not_ automatically update it to the newest one installed. Otherwise I'm sure users would complain about things like ~/.emacs files being incompatible between Emacs 21 and 22. It's difficult to make everybody happy.

Closing as invalid.