texinfo-loaddefs.el?

texinfo-loaddefs.el?

[Eli Zaretskii]

  commit 68bf917896daa10601c3fdff172205e9aa06d155
  Author:     Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
  AuthorDate: Thu Apr 29 11:42:03 2021 -0700
  Commit:     Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
  CommitDate: Thu Apr 29 11:42:03 2021 -0700

      Automatically generate texinfo.el internal autoloads

      * lisp/textmodes/texinfo.el: Replace manual autoloads.
      * lisp/textmodes/makeinfo.el (makeinfo-region, makeinfo-buffer)
      (makeinfo-recenter-compilation-buffer):
      * lisp/textmodes/texnfo-upd.el (texinfo-make-menu)
      (texinfo-all-menus-update, texinfo-start-menu-description)
      (texinfo-indent-menu-description, texinfo-master-menu)
      (texinfo-update-node, texinfo-every-node-update)
      (texinfo-sequential-node-update, texinfo-insert-node-lines)
      (texinfo-multiple-files-update):
      Add autoload cookies, and set generated-autoload-file.

This breaks the build:

    ELC      textmodes/makeinfo.elc

  In toplevel form:
  textmodes/makeinfo.el:71:1: Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, texinfo-loaddefs
  Makefile:301: recipe for target `textmodes/makeinfo.elc' failed
  make[2]: *** [textmodes/makeinfo.elc] Error 1
  make[2]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/git/emacs/trunk/lisp'
  make[2]: Entering directory `/d/gnu/git/emacs/trunk/lisp'
    ELC      textmodes/texnfo-upd.elc
    ELC      textmodes/texinfo.elc

  In toplevel form:
  textmodes/texnfo-upd.el:175:1: Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, texinfo-loaddefs

  In toplevel form:
  textmodes/texinfo.el:77:1: Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, texinfo-loaddefs
  Makefile:301: recipe for target `textmodes/texinfo.elc' failed
  make[2]: *** [textmodes/texinfo.elc] Error 1
  make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  Makefile:301: recipe for target `textmodes/texnfo-upd.elc' failed
  make[2]: *** [textmodes/texnfo-upd.elc] Error 1

I don't think I understand how texinfo-loaddefs.el was supposed to be
created.  What am I missing?

Re: texinfo-loaddefs.el?

[Glenn Morris]

It's no different to any of the other loaddefs file.
make bootstrap will work. If you want a shortcut, perhaps
make -C lisp autoloads will.

Re: texinfo-loaddefs.el?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:06:06 -0400
> 
> It's no different to any of the other loaddefs file.
> make bootstrap will work.

And if I don't want to bootstrap?

> If you want a shortcut, perhaps make -C lisp autoloads will.

It doesn't.  Are there any alternatives?  Which Emacs commands or
functions are supposed to create it and write the expected contents
into it, including the heading ("automatically extracted ...") and the
Local Variables section (like in reftex-autoloads.el)?

Thanks.

Re: texinfo-loaddefs.el?

[Alex Bennée]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> It's no different to any of the other loaddefs file.
> make bootstrap will work. If you want a shortcut, perhaps
> make -C lisp autoloads will.

Surely it's not intending to break the normal autogen/configure/make
build sequence? If the autoloads need generating shouldn't there be a
make dependency to trigger that?


-- 
Alex Bennée

Re: texinfo-loaddefs.el?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> It's no different to any of the other loaddefs file.
>> make bootstrap will work.
>
> And if I don't want to bootstrap?

I believe

    rm lisp/loaddefs.el; make

does the trick.


        Stefan

Re: texinfo-loaddefs.el?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 09:58:56 -0400
> 
>     rm lisp/loaddefs.el; make

A.k.a. "make -C lisp autoloads-force".

But I don't think this is a good situation.  What's worse, even if the
build doesn't fail, it turns out loaddefs.el become more and more
outdated as time passes, see bug#48117.

Re: texinfo-loaddefs.el?

[Glenn Morris]

Here's one previous time this long-standing issue was discussed:

https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2008-04/msg00714.html