(update-file-autoloads):

Be careful about which directory to find loaddefs.el in.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
index adc8b6fb224..9ae7188120a 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)))))
       (save-excursion
         (save-restriction
           (widen)