# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 993034358 0
# Node ID f4830f2d181b3686d9df23020b98fb8d9af8d8c0
# Parent  7e62c472338be101c7b180df938abd0274c389c8
Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.

diff -r 7e62c472338b -r f4830f2d181b etc/PROBLEMS
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Wed Jun 20 10:51:27 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Wed Jun 20 10:52:38 2001 +0000
@@ -748,6 +748,26 @@
 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