From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Splitting emacs source files without getting 'reference to free variable' errors Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:20:01 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87obeanl5a.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364097428 21713 80.91.229.3 (24 Mar 2013 03:57:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 03:57:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 24 04:57:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UJc3q-0008PW-Me for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:57:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34037 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJc3S-00089X-Ts for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:57:10 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: individual.net DbYJTRBBbE6tH+BdMQVn/wy2ZYDF1LrSLnhYt67xJBKjB2Iw7z Cancel-Lock: sha1:MDRhODhiYTA3NTEyNTYwY2U5YjcyYzQ5MDBlMWFiMDBkMTY3NTg2Yw== sha1:bzvziXX/4H1/vxv7Pn+/AErB6no= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:197426 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:55:06 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89708 Archived-At: Joe Riel writes: > Is there a sane way to split the source of an elisp file > while avoiding the 'reference to free variable' warnings > when byte-compiling? > > The problem arises when a variable defined in one file > is used in another. How does one avoid those errors? > I have half a dozen source files that are all required > by one package. A variable may be used in several files > (generally it is used mainly in one file, which is where > it is defined (with defvar), but, must be used in another. > I've tried adding > > (eval-when-compile > (require 'other-source-file)) > > to avoid the error; that sort of works, but not > when two files each uses a variable defined in the other. > > There has to be a better way. See the other thread. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.