Re: Release of CC Mode 5.31

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hi, Henrik, Romain!

Thanks for the reports.

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Henrik Enberg wrote:

>> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:20:37 +0000 (GMT)
>> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>> 
>> I have committed CC Mode 5.31 to the Emacs Repository.  It consists of
>> the relevant parts of the full CC Mode release (omitting, for example,
>> the backward compatibility file, cc-fix.el, and our NEWS, README, etc.),
>> modified for Emacs in line with previous releases.  The stand alone
>> release is available from <http://cc-mode.sf.net/release.php>.
>
>I get the following error when opening a C file:
>
>	Eval error in the `c-lang-defvar' for `c-known-type-key':
>	(void-function mapcan)
>
>`mapcan' is defined in cl-extra, and not autoloaded.

Romain Francoise wrote:

>For example, start Emacs with `emacs -q -nw', open src/alloc.c, you get
>the following messages:

>| Loading cc-mode...done
>| Eval error in the `c-lang-defvar' for `c-known-type-key': (void-function mapcan)
>| Loading vc-cvs...done
>| Error during redisplay: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

>Then if you hit TAB on the first line (which is a comment), an error is
>signaled:

>| c-forward-type: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

>(This is in a freshly compiled Emacs after `make maintainer-clean'.)


This looks like a known problem, which was discussed in the thread "CC
mode loads CL" in the mailing lists emacs-pretext-bug@gnu.org and
bug-cc-mode@gnu.org starting ~6th January 2004.  That thread's rather
heavy going - I'm looking for the solution there at the moment.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)