Subject: bug#53024: 29.0.50; Wishlist: Byte-compile loaddefs.el?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:06:56 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 14:33:39 +0200
> 
> Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > If you want to create a phony target you need to make that a dependency
> > of .PHONY.
> 
> The problem turned out to be that pinyin.el was generated after Emacs
> had been built, which triggered a change in loaddefs.el, which then
> triggered a rebuilt of the emacs binary.  *phew*
> 
> This is now fixed, and it seems like I've now got it to not do any
> excessive rebuilds, while still triggering rebuilds consistently.

Thanks, but where are those subtle points documented?  We need them
documented so that we don't break this again in the future.