Re: XEmacs compiler warnings

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 24 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote:
>
>> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, XEmacs doesn't have the command apropos-variable.
>>>
>>> Compiling /Work/gnus/lisp/gnus-art.el...
>>> While compiling the end of the data in file /Work/gnus/lisp/gnus-art.el:
>>>   ** the function apropos-variable is not known to be defined.
>>> Wrote /Work/gnus/lisp/gnus-art.elc
>>
>> What does one use on XEmacs instead?  I guess it's easy enough to
>> frob gnus-button-handle-apropos-variable.
>
> It seem that there no equivalent command in XEmacs. Should we use this
> (but we'll still see the compiler warning)?
>
> (defun gnus-button-handle-apropos-variable (url)
>   "Call apropos when pushing the corresponding URL button."
>   (if (fboundp 'apropos-variable)
>       (apropos
>        (gnus-replace-in-string url gnus-button-handle-describe-prefix ""))
>     (apropos-variable
>      (gnus-replace-in-string url gnus-button-handle-describe-prefix ""))))

Yes, I'll do something like this.  (It will avoid the bytecompiler
warnings, too, I think.  Please check.)

> There are many other warnings when compiling Oort with XEmacs
> (21.1.14):

Let's work on them one by one.  Or is your XEmacs too old?

kai
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