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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 963e9845430..e8953dbc341 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -748,6 +748,26 @@ functions, one each for every macro. Here's an example: Then replace all references to UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD in syntax.c with a call to the function update_syntax_table_forward. +* Emacs 20 and later fails to load Lisp files at startup. + +The typical error message might be like this: + + "Cannot open load file: fontset" + +This could happen if you compress the file lisp/subdirs.el. That file +tells Emacs what are the directories where it should look for Lisp +files. Emacs cannot work with subdirs.el compressed, since the +Auto-compress mode it needs for this will not be loaded until later, +when your .emacs file is processed. (The package `fontset.el' is +required to set up fonts used to display text on window systems, and +its loaded very early in the startup procedure.) + +Similarly, any other .el file for which there's no corresponding .elc +file could fail to load if it is compressed. + +The solution is to uncompress all .el files which don't have a .elc +file. + * Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails. If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not |