Subject: bug#5158: closed (Re: bug#6521: 23.2; Elisp Manual Ommission)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:09:02 +0000

Your bug report

#6521: 23.1; bytecomp ref to elisp manual on old style backquotes

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#6521: 23.2; Elisp Manual Ommission
From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:03:11 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

[ Can't remember responding yet. ]
>> Could you send it along, so we could see what it looks like (to better
>> assess whether it means we have a serious problem, or if it's just
>> bad luck).
> The code which failed to compile was BBDB as bundled with Debian testing. Do
> you want me to send the error message that was generated? (note that the code
> still compiles with emacs23).

AFAIK, this problem has been fixed a little while back.

        Stefan

Subject: 23.1; bytecomp ref to elisp manual on old style backquotes
From: Kevin Ryde <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:37:14 +1100

Byte compiling

    (defmacro foo (thing)
      (` (some ,thing)))

gives

    x.el:1:1:Warning: !! The file uses old-style backquotes !!
    This functionality has been obsolete for more than 10 years already
    and will be removed soon.  See (elisp)Backquote in the manual.

But that node in the elisp manual doesn't describe the old syntax or
what, if anything, you have to do to stop "removed soon" from breaking
your code.

In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
 of 2009-09-14 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_AU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t