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From: quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: compiling cl.el
Summary: preload it
Message-ID: <9832@sol.ARPA>
Date: 19 May 88 16:46:20 GMT
Reply-To: quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz)
Organization: U of Rochester, Dept. of Computer Science, Rochester, NY 14627
Lines: 27

A couple of posters have mentioned they had trouble recompiling
cl.el.  (dgy@sigmast, anderson@cme-durer.arpa).  I suspect the
problem is more general than that.

From the comments at the beginning of the file:

;;;; To compile this file, make sure you load it first.  This is
;;;; because many things are implemented as macros and now that all
;;;; the files are concatenated together one cannot ensure that
;;;; declaration always precedes use.

The warning is still in effect.  In addition to the reason given
above, you might have loaded another package that defines a
function or macro from cl.el in ways incompatible with common usage,
thus breaking cl.el.  (Also:  you need a byte compiler older
than the one in v17.64, or else in won't work anyway.  However, I
don't think anyone received a copy of cl.el before early release
18.)

Please report problems like the above to me.

Cesar

-- 
Cesar Augusto Quiroz Gonzalez
Department of Computer Science     ...allegra!rochester!quiroz
University of Rochester            or
Rochester,  NY 14627               quiroz@cs.rochester.edu