Re: ignoring autoloads in preloaded files on Windows

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 09:32, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>                --eval $(ARGQUOTE)(setq find-file-hook nil 
> find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings t make-cmd=$(MAKE))$(ARGQUOTE) \

> Then use `make-cmd' inside autoload.el instead of a literal "make".

Clever.

> I think this is undesirable, for something that needs to run at build time.

Well, I agree; my reasoning was that this step falling is not an
error, just a missed little optimization (so there'd be no harm is the
user doesn't define MAKE). But your method is much better.

> The other problem with this is that the -C switch is not supported by nmake.
> So I think it's better to bind default-directory to mdir instead

Yes, I was assuming that we would need a way to pass the full command,
or work around the different arguments of make/nmake.

> and then read the echolisp.tmp file from that directory.

That already happens.

    Juanma