Re: Making AUCTeX ELPA releases from the master branch

[Arash Esbati]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> That works as well, indeed.  There are many ways to skin this cat.  🙂

Meow! 🙀

> Ah, OK.  Not sure why you find it ugly, but there's no accounting
> for taste.

I find it a bit unnatural to load a file containing the autoloads by
hand.  But maybe I have to change my mental model on that.

> I think the patch below does that.
>
>
> diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
> index b5cec4822e..fbf653ab09 100644
> --- a/GNUmakefile
> +++ b/GNUmakefile
> @@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
>  #   latex: prtightpage.def
>  #   latex: prtracingall.def
>  
>  autoloads:
> -     $(EMACS) -f loaddefs-generate-batch loaddefs.el .
> +     $(EMACS) --eval                                     \
> +          "(loaddefs-generate \".\" \"auctex-autoloads.el\" \
> +            nil \"(add-to-list 'load-path                \
> +                               (directory-file-name         \
> +                                (file-name-directory load-file-name)))\")"

Thanks, it works.  The only issue we have to solve next is how to cater
for Emacs<29 which don't have `loaddefs-generate' (we have a solution
for that in the old Makefile; we have to check if have to reactivate
that part.)

Best, Arash