bug: "edmacro" is *always* autoloaded which causes annoying messages

/usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/xwem/xwem-clgen.el contains: ;;;###autoload (defvar xwem-clgen-map (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap))) (define-key map (kbd "H-c H-o") 'xwem-clgen-toggle-other-on-split) map) "Local keymap for generic clients.") Therefore (defvar xwem-clgen-map (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap))) (define-key map (kbd "H-c H-o") 'xwem-clgen-toggle-other-on-split) map) "Local keymap for generic clients.") will be generated into /usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/xwem/auto-autoloads.el This will be read evaluated when XEmacs starts up and. During evaluating this, the macro 'kbd from /usr/share/xemacs/21.5.25.20060327/lisp/keymap.el is evaluated: (defmacro kbd (keys) "Convert KEYS to the internal Emacs key representation. KEYS should be a string constant in the format used for saving keyboard macros (see `insert-kbd-macro')." (if (or (stringp keys) (vectorp keys)) ;; #### need to move xemacs-base into the core!!!!!! (declare-fboundp (read-kbd-macro keys)) `(declare-fboundp (read-kbd-macro ,keys)))) This macro contains a call to the function 'read-kbd-macro which is defined in /usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/xemacs-base/edmacro.el Therefore edmacro.el is loaded if it is not already there. And this causes the messages about loading "edmacro": mfabian＠shannon:~$ xemacs -nw -q -vanilla -kill Loading edmacro... Loading edmacro...done mfabian＠shannon:~$ The patch from comment #12 avoids this problem because it removes this autoload. What I still don't understand is the following: Why does this problem *not* occur if XEmacs is build manually? When building XEmacs for the SuSE packages, we build it in a clean chroot environment which contains only the stuff necessary to build XEmacs. Note that this chroot environment does *not* contain the Sumo packages! As far as I know the Sumo packages do not need to be installed while building XEmacs. This could be the difference between building manually, when the Sumo packages are possibly installed and building in the chroot with the SuSE build system where the Sumo packages are *not* installed. Maybe, if the Sumo packages are installed, some extra stuff is dumped into the XEmacs binary (or external dump file) which is not dumped if the Sumo packages are not installed.