> Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:05:47 +0200
>>> From: Rainer Stengele
>>> 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?
>
>
>