Failing to install because of byte compile error: void-function static-if

[nickjmeyer]

I'm running into issues with installing magit. To reproduce, I'm running with emacs -nw -Q to skip all my initialization. When I run M-x package-install magit, I get the following errors:

Compiling file /home/nickjmeyer/.emacs.d/elpa/transient-0.8.1/transient.el at Thu Dec 26 19:41:36 2024
Entering directory ‘/home/nickjmeyer/.emacs.d/elpa/transient-0.8.1/’
transient.el:1229:8: Error: Symbol’s function definition is void: static-if

The above error is in transient. But there are a bunch of other failures for the same error in different files within magit itself.

From some research, it seems static-if is provided by compat. I tried to explicitly install compat first, but I got the same errors.

Here's my emacs version info:

GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.24, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2023-02-15, unofficial emacs-snapshot build: http://emacs.ganneff.de/, git commit 6a677fd3b6677248a8bc1787b105879684289fa2

Unfortunately magit-version won't work because I can't get it installed :(

Anyone have any ideas?

[kyleam]

• Your version info indicates you're using an Emacs built from 6a677fd3b66 (2023-02-15).

• static-if was added in 97652d0e7a5 (New conditional compilation macro static-if, 2023-09-03).

• IIUC compat doesn't load its compatibility code, including static-if, because your Emacs version is at least 30.0.50.

To fix the issue, I'd suggest 1) updating to a recent developmental build or 2) downgrading to the latest release (Emacs 29.4).

[nickjmeyer]

Well sure enough that was it. Thanks!