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31.0.50; Eager macro expansion errors when building master

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "J.D. Smith" <jdtsmith <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>, luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 79353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
Subject: bug#79353: 31.0.50; Eager macro expansion errors when building master
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 23:53:32 -0400

>> FWIW it sounds like a problem I've seen before in other circumstances
>> where I just added a `(require 'cl-extra)`, e.g.:
>>
>>     lisp/emacs-lisp/comp-cstr.el:(require 'cl-extra) ;HACK: For
>> `cl-find-class' when `cl-loaddefs' is missing.
>
> Interesting.  `tramp.el' could probably just (require 'cl-extra) to fix
> this.  I guess this is a new use of this cl-extra macro somewhere, which
> wasn't caught in testing.

I wouldn't call it "new use".  It's probably just a use that can now
occur a bit earlier (before `cl-loaddefs.el` is built).

See also comment in cl-lib.el:

    (unless (load "cl-loaddefs" 'noerror 'quiet)
      ;; When bootstrapping, cl-loaddefs hasn't been built yet!
      (require 'cl-macs)
      (require 'cl-seq)
      ;; FIXME: Arguably we should also load `cl-extra', except that this
      ;; currently causes more bootstrap troubles, and `cl-extra' is
      ;; rarely used, so instead we explicitly (require 'cl-extra) at
      ;; those rare places where we do need it.
      )


- Stefan

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