GNU bug report logs - #26459
26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull"

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, raeburn <at> raeburn.org, 26459 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull"
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:08:39 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I think this is the right direction, but I can only wonder how come
> this problem didn't come up before.  I'm building with -j6 and -j8 for
> a very long time, and never saw such failures, although clearly the
> generated unidata files might not yet exist when loaddefs.el is
> produced.  Is this likely to happen only on slow machines?

I was wondering the same thing and could only come up with the same
hypothesis. :)

(I also wondered if this indicates another area where atomic writes
would help.)

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