cl-extra not loaded

[Ken Evans]

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, Motif Version 2.1.0)
 of 2003-06-02 on phoebus
configured using `configure  --prefix=/opt/local 
--x-includes=/usr/openwin/include --x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib 
--with-x-toolkit=motif'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I use a version of eserve.el for Sun's Workshop (supplied by Sun).
This file has a require 'cl statement.  With this version of Emacs the
function cl-builtin-gethash is apparently not defined when eserve is
run.  The error message is:

Error during eserve msg evaluation (void-variable cl-builtin-gethash)

It looks like cl.el sets cl-extra (where cl-builtin-gethash is
defined) to be autoloaded, but the lisp in that routine is beyond my
abilities.  In any event it does not get loaded in 21.3.2 when eserve
is run.  It did get loaded in 20.3.2.

I can solve the problem by explicitly loading it in .emacs but doing
this is a kludge.

BTW (require 'cl-extra) doesn't work for this.  I need (load
"cl-extra").  I get an error saying it wasn't loaded, though it
appears to be.  I am not a elisp expert.

Thanks,

        -Ken


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