Re: On elisp running native

[Adam Porter]

Hi Andrea,

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 5:04 PM Andrea Corallo <address@hidden> wrote:

> The reason why your code is byte-compiled correctly during the package
> installation is that apparently package.el is loading the non compiled
> version *before* running the byte-compiler through
> `package--load-files-for-activation'.  As a consequence when the
> byte-compiler runs the defvar already took effect.
>
> I think your fix to wrap the defvar is correct.
>
> That said we have to fix the native compiler that not only is not
> signaling in a sufficiently visible way the error, but is also producing
> an eln just ignoring it :)
>
> I'll look into this second point as next.

Thanks very much for digging into that.  Glad to know that I was
indeed doing something at least somewhat wrong, and how to fix it.