Re: "Outsmarting" auto-autoloads

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. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences 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.