Subject: Re: bug#56902: 29.0.50; Another build failure

From: Gerd Möllmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 08:14:02 +0200

Pankaj Jangid <[email-masked]> writes:

> In toplevel form:
> cedet/semantic/symref/list.el:35:2: Error: Given parent class semantic-displayer-abstract is not a class
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:336: cedet/semantic/symref/list.elc] Error 1

I see this too.  The cause is in semantic/complete.el where

  (defclass semantic-displayer-focus-abstract (semantic-displayer-abstract)

happens before

  (defclass semantic-displayer-abstract ()

in the file.  In CL CLOS, so to say, this is allowed, but I'm not sure
how Emacs handles forward-referenced classes.

CC'ing Stefan, who certainly knows.