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[xemacs-hg @ 2003-02-15 10:15:54 by ben]
autoload fixes, make-doc speed improvements
Makefile.in.in: Run update-elc-2 with -no-autoloads
to avoid multiple autoload-loading problem.
configure.usage: Document quick-build better.
make-docfile.el: Use `message' (defined in this file) in place of `princ'/`print',
and put in a terpri, so that we get correct newline behavior.
Rewrite if-progn -> when and a few similar stylistic niceties.
And the big change: Allow MS Windows to specify the object files
directly and frob them into C files here (formerly this was done
in xemacs.mak, and very slooooooooooooooooooowly). Due to
line-length limitations in CMD, we need to use a "response file"
to hold the arguments, so when we see a response file argument
(preceded by an @), read in the args (a bit of trickiness to do
this), and process recursively. Also frob .obj -> .c as mentioned
earlier and handle other junk dependencies that need to be removed
(NEEDTODUMP, make-docfile.exe).
update-elc-2.el: Use :test `equal' in call to set-difference.
update-elc.el: Put back commented out kill-emacs, update header comment.
xemacs.mak: Delete old unused code that checks SATISFIED.
Move update-elc-2 up to be near update-elc.
Run update-elc-2 with -no-autoloads to avoid multiple
autoload-loading problem.
Don't compute make-docfile args ourselves. Pass the raw objects
to make-docfile.el, which does the computation (much faster than
we could). Don't delete the DOC file, split the invocation into
two calls to make-docfile.exe (one direct, one through
make-docfile.el), etc. In general, all we do is call make-docfile.
Add proper dependencies for DOC-file rebuilding so it doesn't get
done when not necessary. Implement quick-building here: not
building the DOC file unless it doesn't exist, as the quick-build
docs say.
Makefile.in.in: Don't delete the DOC file. Implement quick-building here: not
building the DOC file unless it doesn't exist, as the quick-build
docs say.
config.h.in, emacs.c: Nothing but niggly spacing changes -- one space before a paren
starting a function-call arglist, please.
| author | ben |
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| date | Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:16:14 +0000 |
| parents | 376386a54a3c |
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