bug#62762: 'make' often errors with "Org version mismatch" after pulling a new version of the code

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 14:27:29 +0700
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, yantar92@posteo.net, bzg@gnu.org,
>  dmitry@gutov.dev, 62762@debbugs.gnu.org, acm@muc.de
> From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
> 
> On 05/05/2023 13:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 12:27:25 +0700 From: Max Nikulin
> >> The robust way is to define compilation order through dependencies,
> >> preferably autogenerated ones).
> 
> > This doesn't work in Emacs, in general, due to circular dependencies.
> 
> Could you, please, provide an example where circular dependencies are 
> unavoidable or cost of disentangling of mutual dependencies is prohibitive?

What do you mean by "unavoidable"?

> My general impression that behavior of code having circular dependencies 
> is harder to comprehend.

AFAIR, the problem is that we use 'require', eval-when-compile etc. to
get definitions of macros, functions, and variables.  There's nothing
difficult to comprehend in this.