GNU bug report logs - #48181
incremental autoloads update can put output in wrong file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 01:10:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 48181 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48181: incremental autoloads update can put output in wrong file
Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 08:49:21 -0400

> 3) make-directory-autoloads correctly finds that texnfo-upd.el is newer
> than loaddefs.el, so we execute this branch:
>   
>   (t
>    (setq changed t)
>    (autoload-remove-section (match-beginning 0))
>    (if (autoload-generate-file-autoloads
>          ;; Passing `current-buffer' makes it insert at point.   
>          file (current-buffer) buffer-file-name)
>         (push file no-autoloads)))
>
> Because a non-nil OUTBUF is passed to autoload-generate-file-autoloads,
> it ignores the buffer-local setting for generated-autoload-file,
> and so puts the autoloads in the main loaddefs.el file, which is wrong.

Yep, sounds like you found of the bug.


        Stefan
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