From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7989: 23.2.91; How do I update "local" autoloads? Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 21:22:58 -0300 Message-ID: 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 1304469423 12445 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2011 00:37:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 00:37:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7989@debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 04 02:36:59 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 1QHQ5K-0007HZ-D5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 02:36:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHQ5J-0001mX-VR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 20:36:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHQ5I-0001mO-3y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 20:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHQ5H-0005Zj-An for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 20:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHQ5H-0005Zc-7w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 20:36:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHPsn-0001Nb-Q5; Tue, 03 May 2011 20:24:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier 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 00:24:01 +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=B7989.13044685905247 (code B ref 7989); Wed, 04 May 2011 00:24:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7989) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 May 2011 00:23:10 +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 1QHPry-0001Ma-Cp for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 20:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHPrw-0001MP-SE for 7989@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 20:23:09 -0400 Original-Received: from 121-249-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.249.121]:1949 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHPrq-0003lo-Az; Tue, 03 May 2011 20:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0280F662FC; Tue, 3 May 2011 21:22:58 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: <87y62nvktc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Tue, 03 May 2011 11:57:19 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 20:24:01 -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:46174 Archived-At: > I agree that the interactive interfaces to update-file-autoloads and > update-directory-autoloads are not very friendly. Maybe when they are > called interactively, they should prompt for generated-autoload-file. 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. Stefan