João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> The first thing I notice is that the indicator is completely gone.
> I.e. I can't see any flymake indications in the mode-line.  Is that
> intended, or am I doing something wrong?  Did you test this?
>
> I tried with
>
>    src/emacs -Q -f flymake-mode

Yes, my test case was

src/emacs -Q lisp/abbrev.el -f flymake-mode

And I get: