From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Diepenmaat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Conditional compilation to avoid "assignment to free variable" Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:54:03 +0200 Organization: Zeekat Softwareonwikkeling Message-ID: <87k5d1fhgk.fsf@zeekat.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222288857 29104 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2008 20:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:40:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 24 22:41:53 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KibBH-0008Of-JF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:41:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56433 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KibAF-0003Hm-5v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:40:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!transit3.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABgAAAAwBAMAAAD5pqeQAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAABhQTFRF URgKoyIAmTMXqF5KuYl7y6ui4NDM+/r4zJNdmwAAAAFiS0dEAIgFHUgAAAAJcEhZcwAACxMAAAsT AQCanBgAAAAHdElNRQfXDBIUAgGiEa2aAAABYUlEQVQoz02SvXaDMAyF3aHdZegD2PxkJhQ8J4R6 juGUuZDUe43R61eGJA0D8B1dXV0LGCJaDDePyOjZBtT9MgSYbIu+UpNl2A+/ukPXfNUku2ROdWhM 99myqzWX3Czp8dhY1n+MfWau+X4fZGNZpecuSwpFMHOZnpskFppgEaksGs5lFoYeYilOEMkjzcGC CzjxJJoowZIAQMPhfdYEecGhBFCOwO9GKkFkXZDtfIAax2C9wwKAWzwFyPGwQrXCIkimbzAHeFtl Ts0vJHvFkRI01ssVwpyMAoHkGmfFqL+TEmSNXjHMXeiHZAjZqjOsVxxSV8UG3Fi2ZGID2Fs2t7d3 6mLTdIdUM+PuECvW/T6gfobnSqTY+DDgmrnmATSnfMiQrTvcDOikyT1OWHxZPIF8As8P/waOjzdn IGt+vRVgYD7CrakFTSfFbwAB0Y+ghWj0IjP0Scz6I2E3zIlFb/8AfR6DwKVgwNYAAAAASUVORK5C YII= Cancel-Lock: sha1:3vP181riqctz/YvV7Kb3kh8IGZg= Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.126.3.69 Original-X-Trace: 1222286080 news.xs4all.nl 197 [::ffff:80.126.3.69]:35759 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162684 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58025 Archived-At: Michael Hoffman <4g4trz802@sneakemail.com> writes: > I use the same .emacs file on multiple systems, and each have various > packages installed. There are various forms in my .emacs to only > interact with these packages if they are actually installed: > > (when (locate-library "auctex") > (load "auctex.el" nil t t) > (setq TeX-auto-save t)) > > When I byte-compile, however, I get a warning like this: > > emacs.el:320:9:Warning: assignment to free variable `TeX-auto-save' > > Is there a way to skip over that form at compile time if the library > cannot be found? I tried various permutations of using > eval-when-compile, but I still get the warning. Did you try the following? (eval-when-compile (require 'my-macro-package)) (when (locate-library "auctex") (setq TeX-auto-save t)) HTH, Joost. -- Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/