From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 29.2: (void-function batch-update-autoloads)
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 15:47:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bk1fjvsg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ed6bpil1.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (message from Uwe Brauer on Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:35:54 +0200)
> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:35:54 +0200
>
> I thought in a Makefile, that, among other things, byte compile lisp files,
> one should best set
>
> EMACSFLAGS=-batch --no-site-file
>
> or something similar and the generation of autoloads would use
> functionalities of emacs core.
>
> As you can see in our case the generation of autoloads was done with
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> autoloads:
> $(EMACS) $(EMACSFLAGS) $(addprefix -L ,$(LOADPATH)) --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file "$(abspath $(LOADDEFS))")' -f batch-update-autoloads $(abspath $(LOADDIRS))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> While in your example a lisp file is needed to be loaded.
>
> Now the problem is that we want to cater for users with different Emacs
> versions 30,29,28, 27 and maybe even 26.
>
> In the case of lisp file, I know how to deal with such a situation, but
> for a Makefile? Shall we add a .configure file now to find out which
> emacs version is used and then distinguish in the Makefile whether it is
> <29 or >=29?
It's not rocket science. One idea is to add a Lisp file that would
invoke either the old batch-update-autoloads or the new
loaddefs-generate--emacs-batch (after loading loaddefs-gen), depending
on the value of emacs-version.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-26 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-25 8:52 29.2: (void-function batch-update-autoloads) Uwe Brauer via Emacs development discussions.
2024-08-25 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-25 16:23 ` Uwe Brauer via Emacs development discussions.
2024-08-25 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-26 12:35 ` Uwe Brauer
2024-08-26 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-08-26 13:19 ` Arash Esbati
2024-08-26 13:21 ` Uwe Brauer
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