diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1ee8f8c..212b40e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -6,18 +6,17 @@ EXE=fennel-ls
 
 SRC:=$(shell find src -name "*.fnl")
 
-BUILD_DIR=./build
-
 DESTDIR ?=
 PREFIX ?= /usr/local
 BINDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/bin
 
-FENNELFLAGS=--add-package-path "src/?.lua;deps/?.lua" --add-fennel-path "src/?.fnl;deps/?.fnl"
+FENNELFLAGS=--add-package-path "deps/?.lua" --add-fennel-path "src/?.fnl;deps/?.fnl"
 REQUIRE_AS_INCLUDE_SETTINGS=$(shell $(FENNEL) tools/require-flags.fnl)
 
 ROCKSPEC_LATEST_SCM=rockspecs/fennel-ls-scm-$(shell ls rockspecs | grep -Eo 'scm-[0-9]+' | grep -Eo [0-9]+ | sort -n | tail -1).rockspec
 
-.PHONY: all clean test repl install docs install-deps ci selflint count
+.PHONY: all clean test repl install docs install-deps ci selflint \
+	rm-docs rm-deps count
 
 all: $(EXE)
 
diff --git a/src/fennel-ls/compiler.fnl b/src/fennel-ls/compiler.fnl
index 4f8d43c..9809db3 100644
--- a/src/fennel-ls/compiler.fnl
+++ b/src/fennel-ls/compiler.fnl
@@ -365,9 +365,7 @@ identifiers are declared / referenced in which places."
 
       (λ parsed [ast]
         "runs on every ast tree that was parsed"
-        ;; TODO in fennel 1.5+, bug fennel#221 will be fixed, and all syms in the ast should have a bytestart
-        ;; the extra check can be removed
-        (if (and (sym? ast) ast.bytestart)
+        (if (sym? ast)
           (case (values (tostring ast) (file.text:sub ast.bytestart ast.bytestart))
             (where (:hashfn "#"))
             (table.insert defer #(set ast.byteend ast.bytestart))
diff --git a/test/completion.fnl b/test/completion.fnl
index cc9cf15..653eb4b 100644
--- a/test/completion.fnl
+++ b/test/completion.fnl
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
      {:label #(= nil $)}])
 
   (check "(let [x (fn x [a b c]
-                    \"\"\"docstring\"\"\"
+                    \"docstring\"
                      nil)
                 t {: x}]
             (t."