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File mode specification errors during building

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Message #132 received at 25360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: 25360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: bug#25360: File mode specification errors during building
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 21:07:33 -0500

Phillip Lord wrote:

>> I can't decide whether modifying loadup.el for bootstrap-emacs in all
>> cases is good, bad, or neither... :)
>
> I worry about it slightly mostly because I'd rather not modify
> loadup.el, especially given that the motivation is an error message that
> isn't really causing any harm.

Yes, that was my concern too.

>> BTW, did you consider using a non-Emacs method to generate the basic
>> loaddefs?  Eg maybe find + awk would be good enough to extract the
>> necessary autoloads to get a bootstrap going?
>
> Yes, I did, but wasn't sure what extra dependencies the Emacs makefile
> was allowed to have. I guess it already uses find and awk.

Yes, find and (portable) awk is ok and already used eg for charsets
stuff.

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