From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:58:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Expand comment about building loaddefs.el.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.90~7548
X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/commitdiff_plain/71d77b400b17fd10ea7c7351477d9bc3e7acd886

Expand comment about building loaddefs.el.
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diff --git a/lisp/Makefile.in b/lisp/Makefile.in
index a7ef180b18..b8501c5021 100644
--- a/lisp/Makefile.in
+++ b/lisp/Makefile.in
@@ -218,10 +218,13 @@ $(lisp)/progmodes/cc-mode.elc: \
 # 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.  (Because
-# loaddefs.el is an automatically generated file, we don't want to
-# store it in the source repository).
+# 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				\