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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/Makefile.in | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/Makefile.in b/lisp/Makefile.in index a7ef180b18e..b8501c5021d 100644 --- a/lisp/Makefile.in +++ b/lisp/Makefile.in @@ -218,10 +218,13 @@ $(lisp)/progmodes/cc-mode.elc: \ # Build loaddefs.el to make sure it's up-to-date. If it's not, that # might lead to errors during the bootstrap because something fails to # autoload as expected. If there is no emacs binary, then we can't -# build autoloads yet. In that case we have to use ldefs-boot.el; -# bootstrap should always work with ldefs-boot.el. (Because -# loaddefs.el is an automatically generated file, we don't want to -# store it in the source repository). +# build autoloads yet. In that case we have to use ldefs-boot.el. +# Bootstrap should always work with ldefs-boot.el. Therefore, +# whenever a new autoload cookie gets added that is necessary during +# bootstrapping, ldefs-boot.el should be updated by overwriting it with +# an up-to-date copy of loaddefs.el that is uncorrupted by +# local changes. (Because loaddefs.el is an automatically generated +# file, we don't want to store it in the source repository). bootstrap-prepare: if test -x $(EMACS); then \ |