> Its very first line says
> (requires 'cl)
> which means, if I am right, that a lisp image is required.  But so
> far I do not have a lisp image.  Let me go on with the *.el files
> for the moment.

No, "(require 'cl)" asks Emacs to load the cl.el Emacs-Lisp package,
which contains many Common-Lisp-like functions for GNU Emacs.  It
shouldn't cause you any problems if your Emacs is properly installed.

> When loading from a scratch buffer the fi-site-init file, the local
> buffer message is
> Invalid read syntax: "#"
> But never mind, let's go on.

This is bad.  Either a hash mark slipped in fi-site-init or one of the
files loaded through it, or the .elc (Emacs Lisp byte-code) files have
been compiled using a different version of Emacs from the one in which
you are trying to load them.  Remove the *.elc files and try to remake
them using "make", after verifying that the Makefiles specifies the
correct version of emacs.

I highly recommend to load the package via fi-site-init.el, because
that will ensure that all necessary modules are loaded in the right
order.

> Now I would like to test if the Emacs-Lisp Interface is ok.  For that
> I need the form fi:verify-emacs-support which is in
> /usr/local/acl5/eli/fi-utils.el.
> 
> After loading the file and evaluating the form I get the message
> everything looks fine!
> That I still dont believe.
> 
> The fi:common-lisp form is in the /usr/local/acl5/eli/fi-subproc.el file.
> 
> Here I must admit that I did not succeed to automize these loading
> operations in the .emacs file.  For a reason I don't understand I
> must do by hand in a scratch buffer, or with the M-x load-file
> command.  It is really not clear what I am doing wrong ...

The ~/.emacs file should be loaded when you start Emacs.  However, if
there are any errors in this file, the remaining code will be skipped
(after an error message is displayed).
-- 
Simon Leinen				       <babar.switch.ch at simon>
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