On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM Ikumi Keita <ik...@ikumi.que.jp> wrote: > > Hi Hongyi, > > >>>>> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.z...@gmail.com> writes: > > ## Questions > > > 1. Is this a known ongoing issue, or should the cyclic reference > > problem have been resolved? > > It isn't a known issue. I suspect that straight.el is resposible for it, > because straight.el had sometimes troubles in its own installation > procedure of AUCTeX in the past. > > > 2. Would it be appropriate to modify the autoload generation to handle > > this defalias more safely, perhaps with a conditional check like: > > ```elisp > > (when (fboundp 'ConTeXt-mode) > > (defalias 'context-mode #'ConTeXt-mode)) > > ``` > > As far as I can see, AUCTeX itself doesn't have problems with respect to > cyclic reference. I strongly suspect that straight.el (or some other > packages loaded via straight.el?) does something unreasonable for > context-mode, which interferes badly with AUCTeX. > > (In the past, AUCTeX had something like > (defalias 'ConTeXt-mode 'context-mode) > , but now it turned the way the other way round, > (defalias 'context-mode 'ConTeXt-mode) > . Maybe straight.el (or some packages loaded by straight.el) assumes the > old way?) > > > 3. Is there a recommended approach for package managers like > > straight.el to handle this issue without manual post-build > > modifications? > > I rather suspect that some existing "post-build modifications" conducted > by straight.el causes the problem. Without such unnecessary > intervention, AUCTeX ConTeXt-mode would work without problems. > > So I recommend you to ask straight.el developers to look after this > problem.
I've reposted the problem below: https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el/issues/1253 > > Regards, > Ikumi Keita > #StandWithUkraine #StopWarInUkraine > #Gaza #StopMassiveKilling #CeasefireNOW Regards, Zhao
