From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7989: 23.2.91; How do I update "local" autoloads? Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:33:01 +0200 Message-ID: <83y65u8pjm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lj1uljg8.fsf@sc3d.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296920175 29773 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2011 15:36:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 15:36:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7989@debbugs.gnu.org To: Reuben Thomas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 05 16:36:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PlkBF-00065c-K8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:36:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54029 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PlkBE-0004AO-Qq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:36:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34518 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PlkB2-000476-0s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:35:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PlkB0-0002YL-SJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:35:55 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42153) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PlkB0-0002YH-ON for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:35:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Plk0T-00065Y-Pr; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:25:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:25:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7989 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7989-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7989.129691946323360 (code B ref 7989); Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:25:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7989) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Feb 2011 15:24:23 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pljzq-00064j-RS for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:24:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pljzo-00064W-44 for 7989@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:24:21 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LG500600HQ2O500@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 7989@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:32:52 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.97.124]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LG5006ENHURD8F0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:32:52 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87lj1uljg8.fsf@sc3d.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:25:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:43960 Archived-At: > From: Reuben Thomas > Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:06:15 +0000 > Cc:=20 >=20 > 1. It updated all the autoloads, not just the ones for that directo= ry. > This seems to contradict the docstring for update-directory-autoloa= ds, > which says =E2=80=9CUpdate loaddefs.el with all the current autoloa= ds from > DIRS=E2=80=9D, and I had supplied precisely one directory, interact= ively. 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=E2=80=99m at a loss to explain it: I can see this is useful while= building > Emacs, but I can=E2=80=99t see what possible utility it has when us= ing an > installed Emacs. See generated-autoload-file.