From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7989: 23.2.91; How do I update "local" autoloads? Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 11:40:11 -0400 Message-ID: <87zkn2iiec.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87lj1uljg8.fsf@sc3d.org> <87y62nvktc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304524162 11964 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2011 15:49:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7989@debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 04 17:49:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHeKB-0004Za-Vs for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 17:49:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHeKB-0002nX-Jl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 11:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37661) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHeK9-0002mj-Jr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 11:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHeK8-0000O3-GF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 11:49:13 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:60344) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHeK8-0000Np-DT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 11:49:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHeCD-0006dv-JQ; Wed, 04 May 2011 11:41:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 15:41:01 +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=B7989.130452362225471 (code B ref 7989); Wed, 04 May 2011 15:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7989) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 May 2011 15:40:22 +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 1QHeBZ-0006cl-JJ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 11:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.144]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHeBX-0006cZ-W3 for 7989@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 11:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (static-66-16-23-114.dsl.cavtel.net [66.16.23.114]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p44FeDmY025722 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 4 May 2011 11:40:14 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5DA5716056B; Wed, 4 May 2011 11:40:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 03 May 2011 21:22:58 -0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.144 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 11:41:01 -0400 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:46208 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > AFAICT the global default value of generated-autoload-file is only used > when you use those functions interactively, which was the case back when > Emacs did not bootstrap and didn't have much of a lisp/Makefile. > AFAICT nowadays these functions are rarely if ever used interactively to > rebuild Emacs's own loaddefs.el, so the default value is basically > never useful and should probably default to something like nil. I've committed a change that does this, and makes the interactive functions prompt for an autoload file.