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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Cc: 7989@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7989: 23.2.91; How do I update "local" autoloads?
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:33:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y65u8pjm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lj1uljg8.fsf@sc3d.org>

> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:06:15 +0000
> Cc: 
> 
> 1. It updated all the autoloads, not just the ones for that directory.
> This seems to contradict the docstring for update-directory-autoloads,
> which says “Update loaddefs.el with all the current autoloads from
> DIRS”, and I had supplied precisely one directory, interactively.

Please show exactly how you invoked update-directory-autoloads, with
all its arguments.

> 2. It then wrote the resulting loaddefs.el to the source directory for
> Emacs. This is very clear in the code, in autoload-generated-file, but
> I’m at a loss to explain it: I can see this is useful while building
> Emacs, but I can’t see what possible utility it has when using an
> installed Emacs.

See generated-autoload-file.






  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-05 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-05 13:06 bug#7989: 23.2.91; How do I update "local" autoloads? Reuben Thomas
2011-02-05 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-02-05 15:41   ` Reuben Thomas
2011-05-03 15:57 ` Chong Yidong
2011-05-04  0:22   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-04 15:40     ` Chong Yidong
2011-05-04 15:48       ` Reuben Thomas

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