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bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Apr 2023 15:21:47 +0300 |
> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: leo.gaskin@le0.gs, 62734@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 11:18:25 +0000
>
> > "Building" is a strange term when we are talking about a Lisp package.
>
> How come?
There's nothing to "build". Everything is already built.
> >> I think the central issue here is the
> >>
> >> (and (not defs) extra-data)
> >>
> >> check. Just because we did not find any new definitions to autoload
> >> /and/ EXTRA-DATA is non-nil, does not mean the old contents should be
> >> discarded. The else-case already does the right thing, so I really do
> >> think that getting rid of the `if' could resolve the issue:
> >
> > What happens if a package has no autoloads? The doc string says in
> > that case passing EXTRA-DATA will produce OUTPUT-FILE regardless.
> > Does your patch handle that? (It's hard to tell, given all the
> > whitespace changes in the patch.)
>
> It would, as the else-case of the if branch I am proposing to eliminate
> would still insert the EXTRA-DATA.
And if EXTRA-DATA is nil, then will we generate an empty OUTPUT file?
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, (continued)
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/04/28
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/28
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/04/28
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/28
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/04/28
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/29
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/04/29
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/29
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/04/29
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/04/30
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/30
- bug#62734: Always fully rebuild autoloads in package-generate-autoloads, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/04/30