Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

  > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
  > 
  > >> Well, of course that's only true if a built emacs is available at the
  > >> point of invocation.
  > >
  > > Agreed.  In the case in point, Emacs _is_ available, since we generate
  > > loaddefs.el by running Emacs.
  > 
  > Sure, tho if sed is needed at _any_ point in the build process, it's
  > then a requirement, so there's no reason to not use it elsewhere.

IMO in this particular case it's just an unnecessary complication, the
alternative is to remove the ;;;#autoload lines in the preloaded files.
Which there are about 4, and only one of which has an important impact,
the one in ediff-init.el ....