Re: Byte-compilation of custom themes

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
> Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 12:21:07 +0100
> 
> You're right, emacs -Q followed by (fboundp 'cl-assert) returns nil.
> 
> > I think the confusing comes from help-fns.el which does (require
> > 'cl-lib), so if you do `C-h f cl-assert RET` it will indeed tell you
> > it's autoloaded, but it's just because `C-h f` ended up requiring
> > cl-lib.
> 
> No, the confusion comes from looking at the source of cl-macs.el, in
> which cl-assert is given an ;;;###autoload cookie.  I see now that there
> are some comments in cl-lib.el that suggest loading cl-loaddefs.el
> involves some trickery, so I guess I don't get to eat the cake here.
> 
> In that case, I don't see how Eli's suggestion to predicate the
> cl-assert call on (featurep 'cl-lib) will help, as feauturep is not
> going to load the library for us.

??? I meant the following obvious trick:

  (if (featurep 'cl-lib)
      (cl-assert ....))

Am I missing something?