Mercurial > emacs
changeset 65010:e654d00374e0
Expand comment about building loaddefs.el.
| author | Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> |
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| date | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:58:07 +0000 |
| parents | 2414c0748450 |
| children | 381163cb93e2 |
| files | lisp/Makefile.in |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/Makefile.in Wed Aug 17 01:56:57 2005 +0000 +++ b/lisp/Makefile.in Wed Aug 17 01:58:07 2005 +0000 @@ -218,10 +218,13 @@ # Build loaddefs.el to make sure it's up-to-date. If it's not, that # might lead to errors during the bootstrap because something fails to # autoload as expected. If there is no emacs binary, then we can't -# build autoloads yet. In that case we have to use ldefs-boot.el; -# bootstrap should always work with ldefs-boot.el. (Because -# loaddefs.el is an automatically generated file, we don't want to -# store it in the source repository). +# build autoloads yet. In that case we have to use ldefs-boot.el. +# Bootstrap should always work with ldefs-boot.el. Therefore, +# whenever a new autoload cookie gets added that is necessary during +# bootstrapping, ldefs-boot.el should be updated by overwriting it with +# an up-to-date copy of loaddefs.el that is uncorrupted by +# local changes. (Because loaddefs.el is an automatically generated +# file, we don't want to store it in the source repository). bootstrap-prepare: if test -x $(EMACS); then \