From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17407: obsolete-autoloads can clobber regular autoloads Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 13:56:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399414151 2181 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2014 22:09:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 22:09:11 +0000 (UTC) To: 17407@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 00:09:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WhnRk-0002FQ-An for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 00:02:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58811 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhN8W-00025w-Uh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 13:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46284) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhN8R-00025q-9S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 13:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhN8Q-0007zj-IK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 13:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34557) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhN8Q-0007zf-FD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 13:57:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WhN8P-0004KR-SX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 13:57:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 17:57:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 17407 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 17407-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B17407.139931258516589 (code B ref 17407); Mon, 05 May 2014 17:57:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17407) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 May 2014 17:56:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51908 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WhN7o-0004JV-KC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 13:56:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:59881 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WhN7l-0004JM-Qm for 17407@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 13:56:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhN7k-0005yi-VG; Mon, 05 May 2014 13:56:21 -0400 X-Spook: ICE M-14 Mantis AIEWS Bin Laden Taiwan supercomputer X-Ran: l*)n{BDO!Dyno](yEU0v0^*tlNKU/l#,ku')'it:xK&`4J6]8}ATmX}F[=qsK=tcOKh:?; X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x 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:88706 Archived-At: PS irrespective of obsolete-autoloads, it seems like a potential problem that `make autoloads' might leave you with a loaddefs.el that is not strictly up-to-date. If it scans rmail.el first and adds its entry to loaddefs.el, then scans rmailsum.el and so modifies rmail.el, the rmail.el entry in loaddefs.el will have an outdated timestamp. So if you immediately run `make autoloads' again, loaddefs.el will change. Perhaps if when scanning file B, file A gets modified, it should go back and update the stored timestamp of file A, if previously scanned.