From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, john muhl <email@johnmuhl.mx>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bootstrap broken between 2893cb6a21af3384cf5d6dc2b6bbdd5ebba8e1ad and 469fe6a040d6df612c00ea169670c6d8d7e58563
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 11:28:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbl1dev6t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnk2xtfd.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 18 Dec 2021 08:29:10 +0100")
> I'm not very familiar with the rmail code base, but rmail.el starts with
>
> (require 'rmail-loaddefs)
>
> which pulls in all the autoloads... but then the other rmail files
> depend on rmail, so we seem to have circular dependencies that rmail
> works around with the loaddefs file.
>
> So it looks like doing this might require more surgery than that.
Could be. To the extent that it's only meant for the
bootstrap/compilation case (i.e. a case where `rmail` may get loaded
but won't be "used") I'd expect it to be fairly easy.
This said, breaking the other dependencies (url => gnus-util => rmail)
would bring more benefits.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-18 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-16 23:47 Bootstrap broken between 2893cb6a21af3384cf5d6dc2b6bbdd5ebba8e1ad and 469fe6a040d6df612c00ea169670c6d8d7e58563 Andreas Schwab
2021-12-16 23:54 ` john muhl
2021-12-17 6:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-17 7:07 ` Po Lu
2021-12-17 7:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-17 8:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-17 12:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-18 7:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-18 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-19 10:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-19 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-19 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-19 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-19 17:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-19 17:16 ` secondary loaddefs [was Re: Bootstrap broken betweeen ...] Glenn Morris
2021-12-20 4:43 ` Bootstrap broken between 2893cb6a21af3384cf5d6dc2b6bbdd5ebba8e1ad and 469fe6a040d6df612c00ea169670c6d8d7e58563 Richard Stallman
2021-12-17 12:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-18 7:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-18 16:28 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-12-19 10:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-17 7:16 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
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