From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cus-load.el and loaddefs.el Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:40:17 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200203210140.g2L1eHD14311@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200203202027.g2KKRsj10725@hamm.pajato.com> <200203202245.g2KMj9i11141@hamm.pajato.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016678550 31425 127.0.0.1 (21 Mar 2002 02:42:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16nsX8-0008Ak-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 03:42:30 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16nsd9-0003Ce-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 03:48:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nsWq-0007im-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:42:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nrYw-0005ds-00 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:40:18 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2L1eHD14311; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:40:17 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Paul Michael Reilly Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2078 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2078 > > > Andreas Schwab writes: > > > > |> Both of these files get generated at build time but are source > > |> documents in CVS. Is this by design or should they be removed from > > |> the source tree? > > > > You cannot bootstrap without loaddefs.el. > > Then I suppose we ought to create a file in CVS, say, loaddefs.el.src > (or some such) that gets copied to loaddefs.el at bootstrap time and > then gets populated subsequently. Then loaddefs.el and cus-load.el > can be removed from CVS. Any reason we should not do this? Because I think it's better to just fix the bootstrapping problem so that loaddefs.el is simply not needed any more. I just haven't gotten the time to look into yet, although I know it's not too difficult since I did get it to work a while back. Stefan _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel