Sorry about that, I have sent a proper bug report with reproducible steps.



On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

> > It appears as though your first instinct about lexical-binding is
> > correct. I had a ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- directive in my
> > init-packages.el file, which is responsible for downloading the
> installing
> > missing packages (of which multiple-cursors.el is one).
>
> What is "init-packages.el"?
> "grep init-package **/*.el" doesn't find anything in Emacs's trunk.
>
> I'm trying to understand how this could happen, which I find difficult
> to imagine: lexical-binding is made buffer-local in every file that is
> byte-compiled, so for an external lexical-binding setting to affect
> byte-compilation, you'd have to call `byte-compile' directly rather than
> via byte-compile-file.
> At least that's the way the code should behave.
>
> Oh, and please make it an actual bug-report rather than sending it here
> on emacs-devel.
>
>
>         Stefan
>