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Re: cus-load.el and loaddefs.el
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: cus-load.el and loaddefs.el |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:40:17 -0500 |
>
> > Andreas Schwab writes:
> >
> > |> Both of these files get generated at build time but are source
> > |> documents in CVS. Is this by design or should they be removed from
> > |> the source tree?
> >
> > You cannot bootstrap without loaddefs.el.
>
> Then I suppose we ought to create a file in CVS, say, loaddefs.el.src
> (or some such) that gets copied to loaddefs.el at bootstrap time and
> then gets populated subsequently. Then loaddefs.el and cus-load.el
> can be removed from CVS. Any reason we should not do this?
Because I think it's better to just fix the bootstrapping problem
so that loaddefs.el is simply not needed any more.
I just haven't gotten the time to look into yet, although I know
it's not too difficult since I did get it to work a while back.
Stefan