From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#48117: 28.0.50; Update of loaddefs.el during normal build is unreliable Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:01:15 +0000 Message-ID: References: <8335v8c7o0.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20663"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 48117@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 30 17:04:51 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lcUhF-0005CC-1l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 17:04:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38252 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lcUhD-0007nU-Va for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 11:04:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38284) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lcUeY-0005Ck-Pe for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 11:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47990) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lcUeY-00088n-C5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 11:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lcUeY-0003aT-92 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 11:02:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Gregory Heytings Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:02:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 48117 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 48117-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B48117.161979487813739 (code B ref 48117); Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:02:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 48117) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Apr 2021 15:01:18 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59536 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lcUdq-0003ZW-1D for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 11:01:18 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:59594) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lcUdo-0003ZM-Hf for 48117@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 11:01:17 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20210101; t=1619794875; bh=rroJp5dWnCDUXr8q/Aq75M9UcjMqNzrpopjwrGrdegw=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=GFrwZPLQBNcBTnTPP9xSDAoMYEpC+slT4iZCNOFqHDqpKO/eHDriN0wy/DUGH36GZ xTAAPMYFXih8Dv3dSwlDGtOjomDOK1JTAtz20BpWWZBzP+UI/frzsfRMW1AWOEBJyb kyQdeiueUJulpsJDjn3o6daPsxRMIRjHqzYzmB2klIGdZKEKrdA+zMtQT2qzT1KHR8 sd3+KnW7jYSqZvWDMKtA7B4MAn4k9mPZpR58/iYnLyT4a1BdCbn3QICIq2EQfGp4wR 0Jy8gr1UM7veiDTqX8hr0t2dDo6VT4hqXLm/8gVjYn1xa0+3eXld/Cc+rEiNXyD3DK Qn6yRcocjQntw== In-Reply-To: <8335v8c7o0.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:205258 Archived-At: > > If you keep rebuilding Emacs from the Git repository using just the > "make -jN" commands, to track the development branches, after some time > loaddefs.el becomes outdated. To see the outdated parts, rename > loaddefs.el and then say > > $ make -C lisp autoloads-force > > Then compare the old loaddefs.el with the newly created one: you will > see many changes, depending on when was the last time you bootstrapped > or otherwise regenerated loaddefs.el from scratch. > > This happens because regeneration of the parts of loaddefs.el affected > by Lisp changes is unreliable and misses some changes, in particular > those where autoloads from some Lisp files are redirected to private > *-loaddefs.el files instead of the common loaddefs.el. > > These updates should happen automatically, they should not require > people to "make bootstrap" or manually regenerate loaddefs.el. > Would it not make sense to include these changes in their respective commits? Another solution would be to have a cron job running somewhere and automatically pushing these changes once a day or so.