I recently upgraded to this version of Emacs:
GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2006-03-21 on YAMALOK [1]
It didn't come with gnuserv.el. When I tried to use the gnuserv.el that
worked with Emacs 21.3, I got an error. Eventually I downloaded the
gnuserv beta [2] and copied the *.el files over to the Emacs lisp
directory. I kept the gnu*.exe files that came with Emacs in the bin
directory. Now it works.
So why aren't the necessary el files included with Emacs?
[1] Downloaded from http://ntemacs.sourceforge.net/
[2] Downloaded from http://www.wyrdrune.com/Files/gnuserve_beta.zip