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bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull"
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull" |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 10:09:58 +0300 |
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:37:50 -0700
>
> On 04/12/2017 01:54 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Paul, could you please explain why would
> > it be a bad idea to remove the "phony" status from loaddefs.el?
>
> That would cause loaddefs.el to not be generated sometimes when it
> should be. loaddefs.el depends not only on $(LOADDEFS) (its explicit
> dependencies), but also on all the other *.el files that have an
> autoload directive.
Thanks, I have now added this rationale to the commentary in
Makefile.in.
> I don't see how the problem you mention is one that d703a4d introduced,
> as previously loaddefs.el was generated as a side effect of the
> 'autoloads' rule, which was already phony.
Yes, as Glenn pointed out, the actual culprit was a much later change.
> That being said, we could do a better job of dependency checking here,
> so that loaddefs.el is not built so often. I'll see if I can think of
> something.
Given that batch-update-autoloads already does a good job in picking
up the required changes, I doubt this would be worth your time. But
thanks anyway.
- bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull", (continued)
- bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull", Glenn Morris, 2017/04/14
- bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull", Eli Zaretskii, 2017/04/15
- bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull", Glenn Morris, 2017/04/26
- bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull", Paul Eggert, 2017/04/26
- bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each 'git pull', Phillip Lord, 2017/04/26
- bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull", Glenn Morris, 2017/04/26
bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull", Paul Eggert, 2017/04/12
- bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull",
Eli Zaretskii <=