Re: Bug report + patch: add a few missing ;;;###autoload cookies

Mike> The custom-defines.elc files Mike> /usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/build/custom-defines.elc Mike> /usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ps-print/custom-defines.elc Mike> use some variables and functions which don't have autoload cookies. Yuck. This is a real abuse of the autoload mechanism IMO. Autoloads should be restricted to defined entry points for the module; libraries shouldn't be loaded merely to compute a menu item that doesn't even get displayed! Mike> Adding the autoload cookies as in the attached patch fixes Mike> the problem, even if the .el files are not installed But if somebody adds a random variable to a computation, we'll have the same problem all over again, right? So really we need everything that might be used in a menu item to get autoloaded. I wonder if it's possible to precompute these things when the custom-defines file is being built. I guess I'm inclined to put the patch in, but this whole situation needs to get revisited. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.