Does that patch fix the problem for you too? I've fixed several warnings for overly long docstrings in automatically generated strings. If any remain, I would definitely like to find them and fix them, so I appreciate your help in getting to the root of this. Thanks. BTW, if you find these warnings too much of a hassle, you could consider disabling them with a directory local variable; I believe you would need to set `byte-compile-warnings' to e.g. `(not docstrings)'.