Subject: bug#16353: 24.3.50; cl-position fails in 23.4.1

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:42:06 -0500

>>>> This is GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
>>>> of 2012-09-08 on trouble, modified by Debian
>>>> Using that emacs and cl-lib-0.3.el this fails
>>>> /usr/bin/emacs --batch -Q -l cl-lib.el \
>>>> --eval "(princ (cl-position 2 '(1 2 3)))"
>>> Namespace clash. cl-seq.el used to contain an internal function called
>>> "cl-position". It was renamed to cl--position in 24.3.
>> Indeed, thanks.  We need to adjust elpa's cl-lib.el accordingly (not
>> sure how best to do that, tho).
> Can it be done so that it I can still use cl-position in emacs 23.4.1?

That would be best, yes.

> Maybe by including in cl-lib-0.4 some byte-recompilation of the
> cl-seq.el functions that Glenn mentions:

Could be.  It'd be good to first get a list of the all conflicting functions.

        Stefan