Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided"

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:05:47 +0200
> > From: Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@yahoo.de>
> > CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Rainer>c:\Emacs23\emacs\bin\emacs -q 
> > -batch -f list-load-path-shadows
> > Adding c:/Emacs23/EmacsW32/lisp/ to load-path
> > This site has duplicate Lisp libraries with the same name.
> > If a locally-installed Lisp library overrides a library in the Emacs 
> > release,
> > that can cause trouble, and you should probably remove the locally-installed
> > version unless you know what you are doing.
> >
> > c:/Emacs23/emacs/lisp/vc-dav hides c:/Emacs23/emacs/lisp/url/vc-dav
> >
> > 1 Emacs Lisp load-path shadowing was found

Thanks Rainer,

That is probably something left over from an older installation of 
Emacs. Could you perhaps try to delete or rename the c:/Emacs23/ 
directory and install Emacs again?

> You should take care of this, but I don't think it's related to your
> original problem.

It is a bit related to the installer for Emacs+EmacsW32 that I 
distribute. I have written it so that it does not delete the old Emacs 
tree, but I think that is a mistake.

I think I will let it delete the emacs directory before installation. It 
should be (rather) safe since a user should not put files there.

Any thoughts on this?