Joost Kremers <joostkrem...@fastmail.fm> writes:
The `declare-function` call says that `forth-proc` can be found
in
`gforth.el`, so the fact that you have `forth-mode.el` installed
is
(probably) irrelevant. What you need is the file `gforth.el`.
Where it
comes from is irrelevant, it just needs to be on Emacs'
`load-path`. (And
it needs to actually provide `forth-proc`, of course, and make
it
autoloadable, but I assume that's the case.)
What I don't understand, though, is why there's no `(require
'gforth)` in
`ob-forth.el`. It seems that `forth-proc` is essential for
running Forth
source blocks, so a `require` seems in order.
The point is that `declare-function` is usually only used to
declare
functions that are optional, meaning that `ob-forth.el` should
check if
it's available and gracefully handle the case where it's not.
What is the best way forward here?
What does the documentation for `ob-forth.el` say? Does it say
`gforth.el`
needs to be installed? Otherwise perhaps ask the Org mailing
list or the
ob-forth maintainer directly?
No one is maintaining ob-forth.el.
I found gforth.el in emacs/site-lisp and confirm that forth-proc
is there.
Here is the relevant part of ob-forth.el:
;; Requires the gforth forth compiler and `forth-mode' (see
below).
;; https://www.gnu.org/software/gforth/
;;; Requirements:
;; Session evaluation requires the gforth forth compiler as
well as
;; `forth-mode' which is distributed with gforth (in
gforth.el).
;;; Code:
(require 'org-macs)
(org-assert-version)
(require 'ob)
(require 'org-macs)
(declare-function forth-proc "ext:gforth" ())
It does not (require 'gforth), but strangely (to me) requires
org-macs twice.
Perhaps ob-forth.el is broken?
All the best,
Tom
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