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> From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:46:46 +0200
> Cc: Feng Li <fengli@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> the latest Makefile.in (which does chmod +w on those files),

Is this change really a good idea?  It defeats the purpose of CVSREAD,
doesn't it?  Perhaps it is better to change autoload.el so that it can
update even read-only files, and preserve the read-only attribute of a
file after it's finished updating its autoload cookies.  WDYT?