Re: Elpa installation fails and general confusion

[Stephen Leake]

salotz <salotz@salotz.info> writes:

> Thanks for the help Stephen,
>
>> 
>> this indicates you have an incompatible version of 'cl-lib'.
>> 
>> 'M-x locate-library cl-lib' should return
>> <emacs>/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-lib.elc.
>> 
>> You might have the ELPA package 'cl-lib' installed; that's a
>> compatibility package for older emacs; uninstall it.
>> 
>
> I do not have any `cl-lib` installed except for the built-in one.
> The library is where you said it would be:
>
> ```
> Library is file /usr/local/share/emacs/27.1/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-lib.elc
> ```
>
> I've noticed in the past that this is a problematic library.
>
> Any further ideas?

What do you get when you do:

C-h f cl-defun

It should put up a help buffer that says it's in cl-macs.el

What is the result of these:

M-; (featurep 'cl-lib)
M-; (featurep 'cl-macs)

Can you byte-compile wisi manually:

M-x byte-compile-file ~/.emacs.d/elpa/wisi-3.1.3/wisi.el

etc.

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-- Stephe