Subject: Re: bug#48117: 28.0.50; Update of loaddefs.el during normal build is unreliable

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 18:25:37 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> Then compare the old loaddefs.el with the newly created one: you will
> see many changes, depending on when was the last time you bootstrapped
> or otherwise regenerated loaddefs.el from scratch.
>
> This happens because regeneration of the parts of loaddefs.el affected
> by Lisp changes is unreliable and misses some changes, in particular
> those where autoloads from some Lisp files are redirected to private
> *-loaddefs.el files instead of the common loaddefs.el.

This should now be fixed in Emacs 29 -- the private loaddefs files
updates should be handled as well as the main one.

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