Re: Building Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

> In the past I would use "make recompile" in the lisp directory
> followed by "make" in the emacs directory because it was much faster
> than doing a bootstrap, and because I have my own experimental
> versions of files in the lisp directory that I don't want autoloading.

> Now I'm not sure what "make" does.

It does pretty much what you did.

> It outputs "nil" so many times that any meaningful message flashes by

I don't see that.  Could you post some example session?

> and it insists on generating autoloads for all files in the
> lisp directory.

That was also the case in the past, except that your recipe simply never
updated the loaddefs.el file.

> Is there a way to get the old behaviour.  It left problems from time to time
> but I could generally see how to fix them.

How 'bout adding "no-autoloads" annotations to the files you don't
want autoloaded?


        Stefan