# Maintenance productions for the Lisp directory
-# Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This file is part of GNU Emacs.
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
-# the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
-# Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+# the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+# Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
SHELL = /bin/sh
# Prepare a bootstrap in the lisp subdirectory.
#
-# Build loaddefs.el, because it's not sure it's up-to-date, and if it's not,
-# that might lead to errors during the bootstrap because something fails to
-# autoload as expected. However, if there is no emacs binary, then we can't
-# build autoloads yet, so just make sure there's some loaddefs.el file, as
-# it's necessary for generating the binary (because loaddefs.el is an
-# automatically generated file, we don't want to store it in the source
-# repository).
+# Build loaddefs.el to make sure it's up-to-date. If it's not, that
+# might lead to errors during the bootstrap because something fails to
+# autoload as expected. If there is no emacs binary, then we can't
+# build autoloads yet. In that case we have to use ldefs-boot.el.
+# Bootstrap should always work with ldefs-boot.el. Therefore,
+# whenever a new autoload cookie gets added that is necessary during
+# bootstrapping, ldefs-boot.el should be updated by overwriting it with
+# an up-to-date copy of loaddefs.el that is uncorrupted by
+# local changes. (Because loaddefs.el is an automatically generated
+# file, we don't want to store it in the source repository).
bootstrap-prepare:
if test -x $(EMACS); then \
$(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) autoloads; \
else \
- if test ! -r $(lisp)/loaddefs.el; then \
- cp $(lisp)/ldefs-boot.el $(lisp)/loaddefs.el; \
- fi \
+ cp $(lisp)/ldefs-boot.el $(lisp)/loaddefs.el; \
fi
maintainer-clean: distclean