From f0646ca0d47f9552f18a66c3119ac05d58f73ec5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 15:53:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (update-file-autoloads): Use anchored regexp search instead
 of requiring leading newline before generate-autoload-cookie, which gave
 false negative if sole cookie in file was at bob.

---
 lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
index 986cb74661c..adc8b6fb224 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
@@ -376,8 +376,9 @@ Autoload section for %s is up to date."
 			 (widen)
 			 (goto-char (point-min))
 			 (prog1
-			     (if (search-forward
-				  (concat "\n" generate-autoload-cookie)
+			     (if (re-search-forward
+				  (concat "^" (regexp-quote
+					       generate-autoload-cookie))
 				  nil t)
 				 nil
 			       (if (interactive-p)
-- 
2.39.2