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: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:29:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20140112043735.C0A2E380523@snark.thyrsus.com> <52D21EFA.1010905@cs.ucla.edu> <83ppnx8a81.fsf@gnu.org> <52D2EB66.7060005@cs.ucla.edu> <20140112194348.GB16840@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389565824 28481 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2014 22:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 12 23:30:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1W2TY3-0002ZA-RA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:30:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39686 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2TY3-0007oe-EY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:30:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42908) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2TXr-0007oW-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:30:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2TXk-00044Z-FN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:30:15 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:9283) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2TXc-0003mQ-Im; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:30:00 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCoyj/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAstBxIUGA0kiB4GwS2NVYM1A4hhnBmBXoMV X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCoyj/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAstBxIUGA0kiB4GwS2NVYM1A4hhnBmBXoMV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="44787627" Original-Received: from 76-10-140-163.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.140.163]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 12 Jan 2014 17:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C9A9160791; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:29:59 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20140112194348.GB16840@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:43:48 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168255 Archived-At: >> I'd have it depend on the files that were last used >> to generate loaddefs.el. You mean all of the lisp/**/*.el files? Bad idea: - it would fail to take into account new .el files (not a big deal, but still: we're still in the "best effort" category). - it would cause re-dumping everytime you change a .el file, even tho in 99% of the cases the resulting loaddefs.el is the same. Stefan