Please fix before the release of 23.1 (was: Bug#490722: semantic: invalid read syntax)

[Michael Olson]

This is a pretty serious regression, so I want to bring it to the
attention of the list again, in hopes it gets fixed before the release
of 23.1.  I think the problem is in the byte-compiler.

Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:

> Joerg Jaspert <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> semantic-c.el:42:13:Warning:
>>     /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/semantic/bovine/semantic-c.el:
>>     `semantic-tag-static-p' obsoletes overload `tag-static'
>> semantic-c.el:42:21:Error: Invalid read syntax: ")"
>
> This is a bug of emacs-snapshot, not semantic.  The above compilation
> error is triggered by the following kind of statement:
>
> (eval-when-compile
>    (require 'something)
>    (require 'something-else))
>
> The problem goes away when the lines are changed to:
>
> (eval-when-compile (require 'something))
> (eval-when-compile (require 'something-else))
>
> This is a regression and needs to be fixed in upstream Emacs.

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