* lisp/Makefile.in (autoloads): Do not use abs_lisp.

This should stop recent weirdness, eg:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2013-10/msg00381.html

* lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el: Comment.

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 070e2cf247d..ef07b826091 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2013-10-30  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
+        * Makefile.in (autoloads): Do not use abs_lisp.
+
         * emacs-lisp/autoload.el (autoload-generate-file-autoloads):
         `newline' does not respect `standard-output', so use `princ'.
 
diff --git a/lisp/Makefile.in b/lisp/Makefile.in
index ffd31efa1d7..ff9439d8951 100644
--- a/lisp/Makefile.in
+++ b/lisp/Makefile.in
@@ -178,13 +178,15 @@ finder-data: doit
         $(emacs) -l finder --eval '(setq generated-finder-keywords-file (unmsys--file-name "$(abs_lisp)/finder-inf.el"))' -f finder-compile-keywords-make-dist $$wins
 
 # The chmod +w is to handle env var CVSREAD=1.
+# Use expand-file-name rather than $abs_lisp so that Emacs does not
+# get confused when it compares file-names for equality.
 autoloads: $(LOADDEFS) doit
         cd $(lisp) && chmod +w $(AUTOGEN_VCS)
         cd $(lisp) && $(setwins_almost); \
         echo Directories: $$wins; \
         $(emacs) -l autoload \
             --eval '(setq autoload-builtin-package-versions t)' \
-            --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file (unmsys--file-name "$(abs_lisp)/loaddefs.el"))' \
+            --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file (expand-file-name (unmsys--file-name "$(lisp)/loaddefs.el")))' \
             -f batch-update-autoloads $$wins
 
 # This is required by the bootstrap-emacs target in ../src/Makefile, so
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
index 099f06d9135..f94f74a5652 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
@@ -528,6 +528,9 @@ Return non-nil if and only if FILE adds no autoloads to OUTFILE
                 (if (stringp generated-autoload-load-name)
                     generated-autoload-load-name
                   (autoload-file-load-name absfile)))
+          ;; FIXME? Comparing file-names for equality with just equal
+          ;; is fragile, eg if one has an automounter prefix and one
+          ;; does not, but both refer to the same physical file.
           (when (and outfile
                      (not
                       (if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))