On Sun, April 3, 2016 7:58 pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 19:46:40 +0100
>> From: "Phillip Lord" <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
>> Cc: 23203@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>>
>> The attached patch fixes the problem in my hands (assuming we believe
>> that this is a bug). The solution may be a bit blunt, though, although
>> the function patched is documented as "use in batch during build".
>
> Indeed, I'd rather we didn't do anything that drastic.
>
>
> If needed, backups can be disabled from the command line.

That works too (see attached diff), although it's a bit of pain because of
duplication in the makefile.

I would ask though, when do we want backup files produced from the
batch-update-autoloads function? Changing the default behaviour of this
function seems to make the most sense to me (although perhaps not the way
that I did it).

Phil