* 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.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

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