File.el compiles to null file.elc

[Thomas Mittelstaedt]

Am Freitag, den 09.09.2011, 11:08 +0000 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: 
> Hi, XEmacs.
> 
> XEmacs 21.5.b31, 21.4.22
> 
> At the moment, when I compile cc-align.el on either of the two versions,
> the resulting cc-align.elc is empty.  More precisely, it looks like
> this in its entirety:
> 
> 
> ;ELC^T^@^@^@
> ;;; compiled by acm at acm.acm on Fri Sep  9 10:53:29 2011
> ;;; from file /home/acm/cc-mackenzie-2011-08-30/cc-align.el
> ;;; emacs version 21.4 (patch 22) "Instant Classic" XEmacs Lucid.
> ;;; bytecomp version 2.27 XEmacs; 2000-09-12.
> ;;; optimization is on.
> ;;; this file uses opcodes which do not exist in Emacs 19.
> 
> (if (and (boundp 'emacs-version)
>          (or (and (boundp 'epoch::version) epoch::version)
>              (string-lessp emacs-version "20")))
>     (error "`cc-align.el' was compiled for Emacs 20"))
> 
> (or (boundp 'current-load-list) (setq current-load-list nil))
> 
> 
> cc-align.el hasn't changed since it last compiled, but some of the files
> it requires have.
> 
> Is this a known bug?  What can I do about it?
> 

Had the same problem when I installed the latest cc-mode and followed
the instruction in the README file.
Solution was to do a byte-compile-file cc-align.el from xemacs
afterwards.


-- 
thomas