bug#9712: 24.0.50; doc about byte-compiling `defcustom'

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > The bug has been there for multiple major Emacs releases now -
>> > a decade or so, and appears to have been introduced intentionally.
>> > If there is no plan to fix it soon, perhaps the info that is in the
>> > comments should at least be conveyed to users.
>> The introduction of lexical-binding makes this issue more serious
>> because this code does not obey the lexical-binding variable (and
>> escapes the sanity checks of cconv.el, hence occasionally hiding
>> problems when converting to lexical-binding).
> So will this be fixed in Emacs 24.1 then?  +1

No.


        Stefan