Problems with po-mode.el

[Greg Ward]

Hi --

I'm trying to get po-mode.el working with XEmacs 21.4.6 and/or GNU Emacs
21.2.1.  (My preference is for XEmacs; I only tried GNU Emacs to see if it
would work any better than XEmacs, and it fails in different ways.)

With XEmacs, I'm using the latest po-mode.el thanks to XEmacs' package
management system.  With GNU Emacs, the po-mode.el shipped with Emacs,
namely version 1.1.1.1.

Problem #1: if I attempt to open a .po file in XEmacs, I get the message

  Autoloading failed to define function po-find-file-coding-system

and the file does not load at all.  (I can load .po files just fine with GNU
Emacs.) This seems to happen whether po-mode.el has been loaded or not, and
it happens with existing .po files or if I attempt to create a new empty .po
file.

Problem #2: in GNU Emacs, I can load or create a .po file just fine.  But
when I try to use that .po file to drive string searching and marking (ie.
use po-tags-search), I get the message

   Symbol's value as variable is void: po-marking-overlay

when I hit "," in the po-mode buffer.

Are either of these known problems?  Are there fixes available?

Thanks --

        Greg