Subject: bug#22213: 24.5; please allow specification or elimination of timestamp in autoloads

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 21:20:33 -0500

Oh, I wonder if it is to allow us to only scan some of the input files
at a time (eg a single subdir)?

If the inputs can change during the time it takes us to write loaddefs,
then making autoloads twice in succession could change the output. IMO
that would be a bug in the build system (missing dependencies).