From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-loaddefs.el in git archive Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:18:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8663d748xf.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249406308 7686 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2009 17:18:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 17:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 04 19:18:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MYNeV-0001le-8p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:18:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49809 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYNeU-00058Y-JV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:18:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYNeO-00056y-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYNeJ-000556-HQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:18:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51151 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYNeJ-000553-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:18:07 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:59598) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYNeJ-00016W-58 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:18:07 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n74HI9OL000956; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:18:09 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C61EC3A1B3; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:18:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <8663d748xf.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:43:08 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3333=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113669 Archived-At: > Each build updates the file, I suspect that's only an impression of yours. If not, it's a bug. Yes, some builds update the file, but not "each". > Does the file need to exist in the git archive? For bootstrapping reasons, it's convenient to have it in the archive. > It looks to be a generated file. It is a generated file, indeed. > Ahh, it appears that something is using it before it would have been > created or updated. This would appear to be a build bug. Can someone > who is more familiar with this process help me understand why this is > the way it is, so I can sort it out for the git archive? We could probably get rid of all those files (including ldefs-boot.el), but nobody has tried yet, AFAIK. Stefan