[slime-devel] [PATCH] slime-path needed for compiling slime-changelog-date in slime.el

[Helmut Eller]

Jouni K Seppanen <jks at iki.fi> writes:

> Here's a simple patch without which I couldn't compile slime.el in
> XEmacs. It complained about the variable slime-path not being defined
> when compiling slime-changelog-date.

This is a bit a tricky.  Your patch works when SLIME is in Emacs'
load-path, but that's not necessarily the case during
byte-compilation.  Compiling slime-changelog-date requires something
like *compile-truename* and the closest Emacs variable for this is
byte-compile-current-file.  Unfortunately this is not present in all
Emacs versions 

I committed the patch anyway.  If we ever have a proper install script
we can bind byte-compile-current-file before compiling.

Helmut.