[emms-help] Re: define-obsolete-variable-alias error on emacs21

[Daniel Brockman]

Yoni Rabkin Katzenell <address@hidden> writes:

> Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I installed emacs21 on Debian with CVS emms.
>>>
>>> I got the following error:
>>>
>>> Symbol's function definition is void: define-obsolete-variable-alias
>>
>> Oops, that's my fault, sorry.  I just checked in a fix.
>
> Now I get (on loading Emacs21):
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function defvaralias)

[...]

> I'm using GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll
> bars) which I have just compiled. Maybe I'm doing something wrong
> here. Can you corroborate this on your machine?

Ack, I'm sorry again.  I didn't even test my fix on Emacs 21.
(That's how stupid I am.)

Anyway, it should really be fixed now.  I just committed this:

--- emms.el     16 Jun 2005 18:10:39 +0200      1.49
+++ emms.el     17 Jun 2005 00:21:02 +0200      
@@ -46,1 +46,2 @@
-     (defvaralias ,obsolete-name ,current-name ,docstring)
+     (when (fboundp 'defvaralias)
+       (defvaralias ,obsolete-name ,current-name ,docstring))

-- 
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>

   ``so really, we all have to ask ourselves: am i waiting for
     rms to do this?'' --- Thien-Thi Nguyen (on emacs-devel)