Re: error with bbdb-check-name

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Only in emacs 27 this was changed such that bytecomp requires
>> cl-lib only at compile time, the reason being exactly that only
>> then bytecomp can notice that a package like bbdb did not require
>> cl-lib.
>
> ...but the error message from the emacs 27 byte compiler when
> compiling bbdb-tex.el was so cryptic I did not realize what the
> cause of the problem was.

It should have been preceded by a more understandable warning (IIUC you
should have gotten a warning when compiling one file and then an error
when compiling another subsequent file, where the error is because the
first file was "miscompiled" (and the potential for miscompilation is
the reason for the warning)).


        Stefan