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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | bug#48117: 28.0.50; Update of loaddefs.el during normal build is unreliable |
Date: | Fri, 30 Apr 2021 17:32:13 +0000 |
The generated lisp/loaddefs.el file is AFAICS identical to the lisp/ldefs-boot.el (after calling admin/update_autogen -L), which is versioned. Why is the lisp/loaddefs.el generated?ldefs-boot.el is versioned because it is needed for the initial build of a fresh clone, and it is not identical to loaddefs.el, especially not when you are developing.
Can ldefs-boot.el not be used to detect whether loaddefs.el needs to be regenerated? ISTM that if one assumes that ldefs-boot.el is kept up to date, it is necessary to regenerate the loaddefs file only when ldefs-boot.el becomes more recent than the loaddefs file. This would avoid rebuilding the loaddefs file on each make invocation.
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