Subject: Re: bug#25556: 26.0.50.1; Requiring uncompiled eieio issues obsoletion warnings

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:15:43 +0200

> From: David Engster <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:38:58 +0100
> 
> I'm currently trying to fix compiler warnings during the CEDET compile
> in Emacs master, but there's one annoying problem I'm unsure how to
> fix. Whenever a file does (require 'eieio), and EIEIO is not yet
> byte-compiled, those two warnings are issued:
> 
> ../../emacs-lisp/eieio.el: ‘eieio-object-name-string’ is an obsolete generic function (as of 25.1); use ‘eieio-named’ instead.
> ../../emacs-lisp/eieio.el: ‘destructor’ is an obsolete generic function (as of 26.1).
> 
> Since EIEIO is compiled pretty late, one is flooded with these warnings
> when compiling Emacs master. The warnings seems to come from the
> cl-defgeneric for `eieio-object-name-string' and `destructor'. How can
> this be dealt with?

Is it possibel to arrange that these files be compiled sooner?  We
already have some targets for similar purposes in lisp/Makefile.