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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:36:20 -0500

> (eval-and-compile
>   (unless (fboundp 'declare-function)
>     (defmacro declare-function (fn file &optional arglist fileonly)
>       `(autoload ',fn ,file))))

Yuck!  This is an ugly trick trying to silence warnings.
Better macroexpand it to nil: you'll get warnings in older Emacsen, but
at least you won't end up changing the code's behavior.

        Stefan