"Outsmarting" auto-autoloads

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "David" == David A Cobb <superbiskit at cox.net> writes:

    David> I'm trying to work out some things that modify values
    David> defined by "auto-autoloads.elc".  If I go to the origin
    David> source and modify & recompile it, it appears I've not
    David> accomplished the change because the value that gets loaded
    David> is the one from auto-autoloads.

Just do a make at top level.

    David> I'm guessing this winds up in the dumped code (?)

No.

    David> Does that mean I need to do a "temacs" install and dump in
    David> order to change these?

Strictly speaking, no, but there are some issues in the makefile that
mean that doing "make" at top-level always redumps.

You could try "make update-elc.stamp" in src to avoid the redump.

    David> I'm really really trying to avoid having to do a complete
    David> rebuild.  So far my batting average for recompiles is zero!

I really really think you should find a way to consistently achieve
successful builds unless the XEmacs tree itself is broken.  The fact
that you aren't means that something is not right, and that's likely
to affect XEmacs.

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