Re: Byte-compilation warning in eldoc.el

[Noam Postavsky]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 03:20, João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:
>     When defining the obsolete variable alias for old
>     eldoc-documentation-function (which now points to the newer
>     eldoc-documentation-strategy), one gets the error "don't know how to
>     make a localized vareiable an alias".  I'm not sure, but I suspect
>     this is because Eldoc is preloaded in Emacs 26.3 and the
>     eldoc-documentation-function variable is already set locally by some
>     Elisp buffer.
>
>     Uninterning the symbol shortly before defining the alias seems to fix
>     it.

makunbound might fit better.