Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] missing (require 'cl) ?

[David Kastrup]

jfbu <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> isn't the latest auctex release missing somewhere a (require 'cl)?
>
> I have installed auctex-20120917-a (downloaded from
> <http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/auctex/snapshots/ftp/auctex-current.tar.gz>)
> this seems to be the latest version of the package.
>
> At some point (I am in the mix of moving to a new laptop and system)
> nothing worked anymore: I got error messages Symbol's function
> definition is void: mapcar*,
>
> The problem seems to have been mentioned already in another mailing
> list
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2011-12/msg00107.html>
>
> and indeed (require 'cl) in my .emacs solves the problem
>
> I realized later that in my .emacs I had moved at some point (require
> mic-paren) (which as far as I understand does load the cl library)
> from a position before to one after the loading of auctex,

In general the policy for Emacs packages considered close to the core is
to _not_ require cl at run time (in contrast, using cl-macs at compile
time is more or less developer choice), so it would seem that the proper
remedy would involve not using mapcar* here.

-- 
David Kastrup