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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 18466@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18466: 24.4.50; Failure to byte-compile rmailmm.el
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:44:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dqzje3mpvp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zje36f0f.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:33:52 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Any change that causes recompilation of rmail.el will thereafter cause
> a failure to compile rmailmm.el:
>
>   In toplevel form:
>   lisp/mail/rmailmm.el:78:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: rmail-spool-directory

This is http://debbugs.gnu.org/17407 .

I think there are several problems with the autoloads generation
mechanism, but the simple way to avoid this is to use a separate
obsolete/loaddefs.el file that loadup.el loads if present.
(Not sure I have time to make that change right now though.)





  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-13 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-13  9:33 bug#18466: 24.4.50; Failure to byte-compile rmailmm.el Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-13 16:44 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2017-02-28 21:16   ` Glenn Morris

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