Gnus v5.10.6 not working on GNU Emacs 21.3.1

[Fabrice Niessen]

Hi,

I've many troubles trying to use Gnus v5.10.6 (downloaded from official
site) in GNU Emacs 21.3.1.

While my ~/.gnus worked in Emacs when I had Gnus v5.9.0, it does not
anymore, directly stating upon startup:

    You should byte-compile Gnus
    Loading gnus-start...done
    Loading gnus-demon...done
    Loading gnus-agent...
    if: Symbol's value as variable is void: gnus-article-compface-xbm


1. If I add the following code to my .gnus ...

    (defvar gnus-article-compface-xbm
    (eq 0 (string-match "#define" (shell-command-to-string "uncompface -X")))
    "Non-nil means the compface program supports the -X option.
    That produces XBM output.")
    (require 'gnus-art)

... I go a little further: I see the *Group* buffer, but I can't enter
in any of my nnfolders (in this example, the `mail.misc' folder):

    Retrieving newsgroup: nnfolder:mail.misc...
    gnus-summary-mode: Symbol's function definition is void:
    mm-enable-multibyte-mule4


2. If I add the following code to my .gnus ...

    (defun mm-enable-multibyte-mule4  ()
      "Enable multibyte in the current buffer.
    Only used in Emacs Mule 4."
      (set-buffer-multibyte t))
    (defalias 'mm-enable-multibyte-mule4 'ignore)

    (require 'mm-util)

... I now can enter in my `mail.misc' folder, but can't get out anymore
(by pressing `q'). Aaarrrggghh!

    Retrieving newsgroup: nnfolder:mail.misc...
    Fetching headers for nnfolder:mail.misc...done
    Making sparse threads...done
    Sorting threads...done
    Generating summary...done
    Loading gnus-salt...done
    Loading gnus-async...done
    gnus-summary-update-info: Symbol's value as variable is void:
    gnus-newsgroup-forwarded


I know my tries are really brute hacks, as I don't know the whole system
good enough, and as I'm not (yet) a Lisp programmer.

Can someone help me making this configuration (latest Gnus on latest
Emacs) work?

Many thanks,
  Fabrice Niessen

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