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authorGlenn Morris2017-04-26 14:23:55 -0400
committerGlenn Morris2017-04-26 14:23:55 -0400
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; * lisp/Makefile.in: More comments about loaddefs.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/Makefile.in b/lisp/Makefile.in
index 06d8135c0b9..cbbea78a00f 100644
--- a/lisp/Makefile.in
+++ b/lisp/Makefile.in
@@ -204,11 +204,13 @@ $(lisp)/finder-inf.el:
204# sources have changed. 204# sources have changed.
205 205
206# Write to a temporary file in case we're doing a parallel build and a 206# Write to a temporary file in case we're doing a parallel build and a
207# CANNOT_DUMP-mode Emacs needs to read loaddefs at startup. We start 207# CANNOT_DUMP-mode Emacs needs to read loaddefs at startup.
208# by copying an existing loaddefs.el to loaddefs.tmp to avoid regenerating 208# (FIXME: This seems like something that batch-update-autoloads should
209# the entire file anew, which is slow; starting from an almost-correct 209# do internally, then it would Just Work for all loaddefs files.)
210# content will enable the "only update where necessary" feature of 210# We start by copying an existing loaddefs.el to loaddefs.tmp to avoid
211# batch-update-autoloads. 211# regenerating the entire file anew, which is slow; starting from an
212# almost-correct content will enable the "only update where necessary"
213# feature of batch-update-autoloads.
212 214
213# Use expand-file-name rather than $abs_scrdir so that Emacs does not 215# Use expand-file-name rather than $abs_scrdir so that Emacs does not
214# get confused when it compares file-names for equality. 216# get confused when it compares file-names for equality.