bug#53024: 29.0.50; Wishlist: Byte-compile loaddefs.el?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: 53024@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 14:33:39 +0200
> 
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> 
> > If you want to create a phony target you need to make that a dependency
> > of .PHONY.
> 
> The problem turned out to be that pinyin.el was generated after Emacs
> had been built, which triggered a change in loaddefs.el, which then
> triggered a rebuilt of the emacs binary.  *phew*
> 
> This is now fixed, and it seems like I've now got it to not do any
> excessive rebuilds, while still triggering rebuilds consistently.

Thanks, but where are those subtle points documented?  We need them
documented so that we don't break this again in the future.