From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23692: 25.1.50; Package.el gets confused if file has no autoloads (could be a bug in update-directory-autoloads) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:33:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5751FEC2.5080807@live.com> <22y46lx4yq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465842869 26783 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2016 18:34:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit--Claudel , 23692@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 13 20:34:20 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bCWgc-0008HK-KC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:34:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCWgb-0001ia-UE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40564) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCWgW-0001eH-4R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:34:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCWgU-0007F2-7G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:34:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:55140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCWgU-0007Ey-3a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bCWgT-0002Kt-SI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:34:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:34:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 23692 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 23692-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B23692.14658428418971 (code B ref 23692); Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:34:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23692) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Jun 2016 18:34:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39244 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bCWgS-0002Kd-Qb for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:34:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49525) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bCWgR-0002KR-Fd for 23692@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:33:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCWgL-0007BU-Be for 23692@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36156) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCWgJ-000799-OZ; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bCWgH-0001nQ-Ks; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:33:49 -0400 X-Spook: cracking DNDO Food Poisoning enforcers White House Islam X-Ran: |iRe>Z7_.W0>#gs"1ScsdWD&sOn~8sQnPb+81R[FU: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 08 Jun 2016 21:47:04 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) 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:119510 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > - (when changed > + (if (not changed) > + (set-buffer-modified-p nil) I guess that will work. Some vague thoughts: i) I guess now autoload will sometimes not create any output file. Does that matter? ii) I wonder what this means for reproducibility of the loaddefs file. IIRC When building Emacs itself, the loaddefs file can change if you: make -j8 bootstrap; make -C lisp autoloads due to changes in "files with no autoloads" section owing to generated files being created in parallel with loaddefs.el (this is really a failure in dependency tracking for loaddefs, but it's harmless). But it does finally converge to a fixed state. Will it still do so if the loaddefs file sometimes isn't written? iii) Would applying a move-if-change style logic be better?