From afa02fc58c523b31ccfcc657794d4865a40b02a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:23:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ; * lisp/Makefile.in: More comments about loaddefs. --- lisp/Makefile.in | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/Makefile.in b/lisp/Makefile.in index 06d8135c0b9..cbbea78a00f 100644 --- a/lisp/Makefile.in +++ b/lisp/Makefile.in @@ -204,11 +204,13 @@ $(lisp)/finder-inf.el: # sources have changed. # Write to a temporary file in case we're doing a parallel build and a -# CANNOT_DUMP-mode Emacs needs to read loaddefs at startup. We start -# by copying an existing loaddefs.el to loaddefs.tmp to avoid regenerating -# the entire file anew, which is slow; starting from an almost-correct -# content will enable the "only update where necessary" feature of -# batch-update-autoloads. +# CANNOT_DUMP-mode Emacs needs to read loaddefs at startup. +# (FIXME: This seems like something that batch-update-autoloads should +# do internally, then it would Just Work for all loaddefs files.) +# We start by copying an existing loaddefs.el to loaddefs.tmp to avoid +# regenerating the entire file anew, which is slow; starting from an +# almost-correct content will enable the "only update where necessary" +# feature of batch-update-autoloads. # Use expand-file-name rather than $abs_scrdir so that Emacs does not # get confused when it compares file-names for equality. -- 2.39.5