bug#16573: 24.3; Auctex (11.87.2) in Elpa issues hundreds of warnings on compile

[Glenn Morris]

Tassilo Horn wrote:

>> Personally I think this is bad practice.
>
> Why? 

Well, what if you make a typo and use a function that is really undefined?

> As said, all those style files use LaTeX-* and TeX-* vars and
> functions defined by AUCTeX's core.  However, the style files can't be
> required individually, but AUCTeX itself loads them dynamically
> depending on the \usepackages and \documentclass you use in your LaTeX
> document. 

Why can't the style files require whatever AUCTeX files they need?

> Well, AUCTeX releases have a (setq byte-compile-warnings nil) in a
> custom lpath.el that's used when byte-compiling anyway.

Which makes this whole exercise rather laughable, doesn't it?

"All releases must ship with no warnings."
<Disables warnings>
"Job done!"