From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bootstrap not regenerating some *loaddefs Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:43:28 +0300 Message-ID: References: <05iqw82bux.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4kmylieydz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <3hhcbpdyr5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213991032 4570 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2008 19:43:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:43:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 20 21:44:35 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 1K9mXB-0004JE-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:44:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52400 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K9mWM-0005Ru-Ap for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:43:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K9mWI-0005RR-9o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K9mWH-0005RC-Lm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37426 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K9mWH-0005R5-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:47008) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K9mWB-0000a1-BK; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:43:31 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.217.57]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K2S003XZ25Q1PD1@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:58:38 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:99550 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, jasonr@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:46:28 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> finder-data and custom-deps should not depend on $(lisp)/loaddefs.el > >> because it should not be necessary now, and because if they do it can > >> cause a redumping of Emacs. > > > > Why is it ``not necessary''? Don't these targets cause Emacs to read > > all the *.el files anymore? > > I went to the trouble of putting detailed comments and references in > lisp/Makefile.in, please read them. Please trust me that I did so before asking the question. I simply don't understand what you are saying there, perhaps because most of that comment doesn't describe the present solution, but rather different alternatives that were not taken.