From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bootstrap not regenerating some *loaddefs Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:51:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4kmylieydz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <3hhcbpdyr5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213908702 16939 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2008 20:51:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:51:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , Jason Rumney , emacs-devel Mailinglist To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 19 22:52:26 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K9R7K-0004z6-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:52:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50521 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K9R6V-0007LO-8u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:51:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K9R6P-0007I9-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:51:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K9R6N-0007FF-PZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:51:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41273 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K9R6N-0007Ex-La for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from x-132-204-254-145.xtpr.umontreal.ca ([132.204.254.145]:55840 helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K9R6N-0002Wc-8s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0E3C9B405D; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:51:21 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:38:07 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Greylist: delayed 12812 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at monty-python; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:51:26 EDT X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:99488 Archived-At: >> You should avoid creating a base loaddefs by hand on windows, because >> it should not be necessary, and otherwise someone will have to >> remember to update the makefile rule every time the version in >> autoload.el is changed. > I agree that "it should not be necessary", but why was it deemed > necessary would perhaps be better answered by the developer that > implemented that on Windows in the first place. It used to be done in Unix as well. It's just that the w32 makefile did not stay in sync with the Makefile.in. Stefan