Re: [PATCH] port elisp-compilation support to emacs-23.1 and newer

2017-11-23 Thread Jim Meyering
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > Hello Jim, > > Jim Meyering writes: > >> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> I wanted to make a new idutils release, but was blocked because >>> its "make distcheck" would fail. That was because it distributes >>> and

Re: [PATCH] port elisp-compilation support to emacs-23.1 and newer

2017-11-23 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello Jim, Jim Meyering writes: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> I wanted to make a new idutils release, but was blocked because >> its "make distcheck" would fail. That was because it distributes >> and builds from an elisp file, and automake's elisp-compilation >> rul

Re: [PATCH] port elisp-compilation support to emacs-23.1 and newer

2017-11-23 Thread Jim Meyering
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > I wanted to make a new idutils release, but was blocked because > its "make distcheck" would fail. That was because it distributes > and builds from an elisp file, and automake's elisp-compilation > rule uses a function that was marked obsolet

[PATCH] port elisp-compilation support to emacs-23.1 and newer

2017-11-23 Thread Jim Meyering
I wanted to make a new idutils release, but was blocked because its "make distcheck" would fail. That was because it distributes and builds from an elisp file, and automake's elisp-compilation rule uses a function that was marked obsolete back in 2009. Upstream Emacs finally removed support for tha