Re: reftex.el autoloads

[Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>]

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On 10 Dec 2015 11:03 am, "Phillip Lord" <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
> I'm trying to run git bisect on emacs, but I have a problem. After
> building and testing emacs, routinely, git cannot start the next bisect
> because reftex.el seems to have been changed locally.
>
> Of course, I can fix this with git checkout lisp/textmodes/reftex.el,
> but I am trying to do an unattended bisect.
>
> The diff looks like this....
>
> git diff
> diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/reftex.el b/lisp/textmodes/reftex.el
> index 84efa7a..4ee3658 100644
> --- a/lisp/textmodes/reftex.el
> +++ b/lisp/textmodes/reftex.el
> @@ -2397,7 +2397,7 @@ reftex-report-bug
>  ^L
>  ;;; Start of automatically extracted autoloads.
>  ^L
> -;;;### (autoloads nil "reftex-auc" "reftex-auc.el"
"cf606f7918831321cb46f254436dc66e")
> +;;;### (autoloads nil "reftex-auc" "reftex-auc.el"
"7c0e0b46919f4ceefe1026e31e73ebcd")
>  ;;; Generated autoloads from reftex-auc.el
>
>  (autoload 'reftex-arg-label "reftex-auc" "\
>
>
> So, it appears that reftex.el is actually partially real source and
> partially generated during the normal build, which doesn't seem a good
> thing to me.
>
> Am I missing something? And is there a good way to fix it?
>
> Phil

FWIW,
I've noticed several other autoloads files presenting the same behaviour
whenever I build emacs.

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