* lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el (generated-autoload-load-name): Doc fix.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 1e10c828de5..cc1703b2ca9 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2013-05-11  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
+        * emacs-lisp/autoload.el (generated-autoload-load-name): Doc fix.
+
         * cus-dep.el (custom-make-dependencies): Only use safe local variables.
         Treat cc-provide like provide.
 
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
index edaecd7ff19..dbb4a239f02 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
@@ -52,7 +52,10 @@ FormFeed character.")
 
 (defvar generated-autoload-load-name nil
   "Load name for `autoload' statements generated from autoload cookies.
-If nil, this defaults to the file name, sans extension.")
+If nil, this defaults to the file name, sans extension.
+Typically, you need to set this when the directory containing the file
+is not in `load-path'.
+This also affects the generated cus-load.el file.")
 ;;;###autoload
 (put 'generated-autoload-load-name 'safe-local-variable 'stringp)