Re: Building Emacs

[joakim@verona.se]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> In the past I would use "make recompile" in the lisp directory
>> followed by "make" in the emacs directory because it was much faster
>> than doing a bootstrap, and because I have my own experimental
>> versions of files in the lisp directory that I don't want autoloading.
>
>> Now I'm not sure what "make" does.
>
> It does pretty much what you did.
>
>> It outputs "nil" so many times that any meaningful message flashes by
>
> I don't see that.  Could you post some example session?

I think maybe Nick applied an early version of the window-group patch,
which contains some debug statements I forgot.

Could you try removing those, Nick?

>
>> and it insists on generating autoloads for all files in the
>> lisp directory.
>
> That was also the case in the past, except that your recipe simply never
> updated the loaddefs.el file.
>
>> Is there a way to get the old behaviour.  It left problems from time to time
>> but I could generally see how to fix them.
>
> How 'bout adding "no-autoloads" annotations to the files you don't
> want autoloaded?
>
>
>         Stefan
>
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Joakim Verona