GNU bug report logs - #7989
23.2.91; How do I update "local" autoloads?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.2.91

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 7989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 7989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Subject: Re: bug#7989: 23.2.91; How do I update "local" autoloads?
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 21:22:58 -0300

> I agree that the interactive interfaces to update-file-autoloads and
> update-directory-autoloads are not very friendly.  Maybe when they are
> called interactively, they should prompt for generated-autoload-file.

AFAICT the global default value of generated-autoload-file is only used
when you use those functions interactively, which was the case back when
Emacs did not bootstrap and didn't have much of a lisp/Makefile.
AFAICT nowadays these functions are rarely if ever used interactively to
rebuild Emacs's own loaddefs.el, so the default value is basically
never useful and should probably default to something like nil.


        Stefan
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