Re: cl-extra not loaded

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Ken Evans wrote:

> I use a version of eserve.el for Sun's Workshop (supplied by Sun).
> This file has a require 'cl statement.  With this version of Emacs the
> function cl-builtin-gethash is apparently not defined when eserve is
> run.  The error message is:
> 
> Error during eserve msg evaluation (void-variable cl-builtin-gethash)


As the message says, it is a variable reference, not a function call.


> It looks like cl.el sets cl-extra (where cl-builtin-gethash is
> defined) to be autoloaded, but the lisp in that routine is beyond my
> abilities.  In any event it does not get loaded in 21.3.2 when eserve
> is run.  It did get loaded in 20.3.2.


cl.el arranges for the cl-gethash function to be autoloaded.  Perhaps it
should arrange for the cl-builtin-gethash variable (and the other
cl-builtin-*hash variables defined in cl-extra.el, for compatibility with
code byte-compiled by Emacs-20) to be autoloaded as well.


> I can solve the problem by explicitly loading it in .emacs but doing
> this is a kludge.
> 
> BTW (require 'cl-extra) doesn't work for this.  I need (load
> "cl-extra").  I get an error saying it wasn't loaded, though it
> appears to be.  I am not a elisp expert.

That's because cl-extra.el does not provide the cl-extra feature.  Should it?

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