(update-file-autoloads): Redo 1997-08-23 change.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
index a8e57669de5..1a85cd7c688 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
@@ -310,7 +310,10 @@ are used."
           (set-buffer existing-buffer))
       ;; We must read/write the file without any code conversion.
       (let ((coding-system-for-read 'no-conversion))
-        (set-buffer (find-file-noselect generated-autoload-file)))
+        (set-buffer (find-file-noselect
+                     (expand-file-name generated-autoload-file
+                                       (expand-file-name "lisp"
+                                                         source-directory)))))
       (or (> (buffer-size) 0)
           (error "Autoloads file %s does not exist" buffer-file-name))
       (or (file-writable-p buffer-file-name)