[Erc-discuss] Re: erc (5.1.4) dies on high cpu load

[Michael Olson]

Pietro Giorgianni <address@hidden> writes:

> a question: when i ran "make install", the byte-compilation of .el
> files gave lots of messages like the following:
>
> ERC: The function `defvaralias' is not bound.  See the NEWS file for variable 
> name changes since ERC 5.0.4.
> Wrote /home/giorgian/elisp/erc/erc-sound.elc
>
> what does that mean? should i worry? erc seems working ok...
>
> i'm using:
>
> GNU Emacs 22.0.95.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 
> 2007-03-02 on pacem, modified by Debian

It means that you're actually compiling ERC with Emacs 21 rather than
Emacs 22.  There was some code put in for compatibility with older
versions of ERC, but this code only works on Emacs 22.  It's not a big
deal if you don't make custom functions for ERC.

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