Neil Crellin <neilc@wallaby.cc> writes:

> With two different recent releases of 5.8.2+cvs-updates, I get the
> following error on trying to start gnus, plugged or unplugged.
> Removing gnus-start.elc however allows both to work.  Any ideas here?
> 
> Signaling: (void-function ignore-errors)
>   (ignore-errors (concat (file-name-directory ...) "site-lisp/gnus-init"))
>   eval((ignore-errors (concat (file-name-directory ...) "site-lisp/gnus-init")))
>   custom-initialize-reset(gnus-site-init-file (ignore-errors (concat (file-name-directory ...) "site-lisp/gnus-init")))
>   custom-declare-variable(gnus-site-init-file (ignore-errors (concat (file-name-directory ...) "site-lisp/gnus-init")) ("/home/neilc/lisp/gnus/gnus-5.8.2.1/lisp/gnus-start.elc" . -1283) :group gnus-start :type (choice file (const nil)))
>   gnus-1(nil nil nil)
>   gnus(nil)
>   call-interactively(gnus)
>   execute-extended-command(nil)
> * call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

Interesting.  It looks as though ignore-errors isn't getting expanded
by the byte compiler.  Hmm...  Let me look.

Ah, I see.  The way defcustom works is causing the `ignore-errors' not
to be byte compiled.  Try the following patch: