GNU bug report logs - #22308
intermittent problem generating autoloads

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Message #12 received at 22308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22308: intermittent problem generating autoloads
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:36:59 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 22308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:39:31 -0500
> 
> I have seen similar issues twice in my own daily builds (in mid-Dec), so
> the issue is not specific to hydra.

OK, then I ask the same question about your daily builds, if that
happens there again.

It stopped happening to me in December, so I'm surprised it still
happens elsewhere.

> > This stopped happening for me since the undo issues were fixed on the
> > emacs-25 branch.  I thought that was what fixed these.
> 
> Maybe yours was a different issue (I'm surprised undo has any relevance
> to autoload generation).

The undo changes messed with the gap while Emacs was inserting stuff
into the gap, and generating autoloads inserts a lot of stuff into a
buffer.

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