Re: [AUCTeX-devel] auto-loads.el in Makefile.in

[David Kastrup]

Ikumi Keita <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>> Ouch.  Having looked at the code and at the shell manual again, I
>> wrote complete nonsense.  Sorry for causing you all that work.  I
>> checked something into the CVS (untested, though), that should work
>> better.
>
> Hmm, again the same error... BSD make is stubborn.

I think I got it now.  Ralf provided me with some more info, and it
would seem that BSD make calls the shell with the equivalent of "abort
if nonzero".

Check out the new fix.

> I found that the error is signaled at the following code in autoload.el,
> at least with my Emacs 21.4:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>       (or (> (buffer-size) 0)
>         (error "Autoloads file %s does not exist" buffer-file-name))
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So I modified Makefile.in in the following way and it seems to work
> out.

Ah, but it does not work with all supported Emacs versions IIRC.  This
"try again" junk had a purpose.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum