From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25360: File mode specification errors during building Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 21:07:33 -0500 Message-ID: <3pr3327sii.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <8760lndxlz.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83bmvfdk2r.fsf@gnu.org> <8737gqsqqr.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ziiyda4y.fsf@gnu.org> <87inpj1288.fsf@russet.org.uk> <834m13caay.fsf@gnu.org> <87k29ylk8h.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87mvest1vz.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87h94zyj5s.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <1760ldfurw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k29t4a3d.fsf@russet.org.uk> <8737ghxjce.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <8737gf8h0g.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83k29r6nnw.fsf@gnu.org> <87lgu4qfst.fsf@russet.org.uk> <874m0q7xo6.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87tw8k8o7z.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486951750 594 195.159.176.226 (13 Feb 2017 02:09:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 02:09:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: Noam Postavsky , 25360@debbugs.gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 13 03:09:05 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cd64e-00089u-VJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 12 Feb 2017 21:08:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52624) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cd63C-00059f-Bi; Sun, 12 Feb 2017 21:07:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cd63B-0003jV-U4; Sun, 12 Feb 2017 21:07:33 -0500 X-Spook: Commecen NASA Centro KGB warfare Federal Bureau of X-Ran: #'!Cuug (Phillip Lord's message of "Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:25:04 +0000") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:129291 Archived-At: Phillip Lord wrote: >> I can't decide whether modifying loadup.el for bootstrap-emacs in all >> cases is good, bad, or neither... :) > > I worry about it slightly mostly because I'd rather not modify > loadup.el, especially given that the motivation is an error message that > isn't really causing any harm. Yes, that was my concern too. >> BTW, did you consider using a non-Emacs method to generate the basic >> loaddefs? Eg maybe find + awk would be good enough to extract the >> necessary autoloads to get a bootstrap going? > > Yes, I did, but wasn't sure what extra dependencies the Emacs makefile > was allowed to have. I guess it already uses find and awk. Yes, find and (portable) awk is ok and already used eg for charsets stuff.