Problems with (require 'mailcap)

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

Hi,

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>>>>> In <200211141335.gAEDZaMH013537 ＠ musashi.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
>>>>>	Dirk GOUDERS <gouders ＠ et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> wrote:

> Gnus v5.9.0
> GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386--freebsd, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)

> Hello,

> I had some problems with Gnus and want to report about it:

> everytime I tried to read an article with MIME headers, I got an error
> message:

> Symbol's function definition is void: mailcap-parse-mailcap

> recognized a (require 'mailcap) and that requirement was fullfilled by
> the wrong file /usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/site-lisp/flim/mailcap.el
> which also provides `mailcap'.

> I solved the problem by renaming Gnus' mailcap to gnus-mailcap.

> I'm not sure if it is a problem of Gnus, but I think that no to
> lisp-files should provide the same resource, do they?

Neither Gnus nor FLIM is bad.  The problem occurred since those
names had collided by chance.  Now, all functions in the FLIM's
mailcap.el have been transferred to mime-conf.el in order to
avoid the problem.  So, you may simply delete it like:

rm /usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/site-lisp/flim/mailcap.el*

Probably, mailcap.el won't be included in the next FLIM release.

Regards,
-- 
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka ＠ jpl.org>