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> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:31:39 +0100
> From: "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos@gmail.com>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've retrived flymake from CVS :
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/flymake.el?rev=1.2.4.21
> 
> But when I compile it and try to load it I get:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable
> compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist)
>   (flymake-reformat-err-line-patterns-from-compile-el
> compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist)
> [...]
> I'm using emacs 21.4.
> 
> Any ideas on what might be wrong?

Yes: you cannot just rip off a single Lisp file from CVS and hope for
it to work.  The variable compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist did not
exist in Emacs 21.4.