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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 | 2cf5d151eeb9 |
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The files in this directory contain source code for the core XEmacs facilities written in Emacs Lisp. *.el files are Elisp source, and *.elc files are byte-compiled versions of the corresponding *.el files. Byte-compiled files are architecture-independent. Functions used only by files in this directory are considered "internal" and are subject to change at any time. All commands, and most functions with docstrings, are part of the exported API. In particular, it is considered good style to use the Common Lisp facilities provided in cl*.el. (Yes, that's ambiguous. Sorry, we don't have a full specification of the API, as the Lispref is chronically incomplete. Anything described in the Lispref is part of the API, of course.) Libraries which implement applications and enhancements are placed in the "packages", which are distributed separately from the core sources. #### Someone please update this. #### Partially updated 2001-08-25 by sjt. Needs more work. Mike? When XEmacs starts up, it adds certain directories in various hierarchies containing Lisp libraries to `load-path' (the list of directories to be searched when loading files). These are: this directory, its subdirectory ./mule (in Mule-enabled XEmacs only), the site-lisp directory (deprecated), and all the lisp/PACKAGE subdirectories of the xemacs-packages, mule-packages, and site-packages hierarchies. See setup-paths.el. #### Is the following true or relevant any more? bogus> Directories whose names begin with "-" or "." are not added to bogus> the default load-path. Some files which you might reasonably want to alter when installing or customizing XEmacs at your site are: paths.el You may need to change the default pathnames here, but probably not. This is loaded before XEmacs is dumped. site-init.el #### obsolete and removed? To pre-load additional libraries into XEmacs and dump them in the executable, load them from this file. Read the instructions in this file for a description of how to do this. site-load.el #### description is obsolete This is like site-init.el, but if you want the docstrings of your preloaded libraries to be kept in the DOC file instead of in the executable, you should load them from this file instead. To do this, you must also cause them to be scanned when the DOC file is generated by editing ../src/Makefile.in.in and rerunning configure. #### new semantics This file will preload additional libraries listed in ../site-packages and dump them into XEmacs. ../site-packages List of additional libraries read by site-load.el. site-start.el This is loaded each time XEmacs starts up, before the user's .emacs file. (Sysadmin must create.) Can be inhibited for a given invocation with `--no-site-file'. default.el This is loaded each time XEmacs starts up, after the user's .emacs file, unless .emacs sets the variable inhibit-default-init to t. (Sysadmin must create.) Can be inhibited for a given invocation with `-q'. version.el This contains the version information for XEmacs. ======================================================================== Original text follows: The files in this directory contain source code for the XEmacs facilities written in Emacs Lisp. *.el files are Elisp source, and *.elc files are byte-compiled versions of the corresponding *.el files. Byte-compiled files are architecture-independent. #### Someone please update this. bogus> When XEmacs starts up, it adds all subdirectories of the bogus> site-lisp directory. The site-lisp directory normally exists bogus> only in installation trees. For more information about the bogus> site-lisp directory see the NEWS file. bogus> After XEmacs adds all subdirectories of the site-lisp bogus> directory, it adds all subdirectories of this directory to the bogus> load-path (the list of directories to be searched when loading bogus> files.) To speed up this process, this directory has been bogus> rearranged to have very few files at the top-level, so that bogus> emacs doesn't have to stat() several hundred files to find the bogus> dozen or so which are actually subdirectories. bogus> Directories whose names begin with "-" or "." are not added to bogus> the default load-path. The only files which remain at top-level are those which you might reasonably want to alter when installing or customizing XEmacs at your site. The files which may appear at top level are: paths.el You may need to change the default pathnames here, but probably not. This is loaded before XEmacs is dumped. site-init.el To pre-load additional libraries into XEmacs and dump them in the executable, load them from this file. Read the instructions in this file for a description of how to do this. site-load.el This is like site-init.el, but if you want the docstrings of your preloaded libraries to be kept in the DOC file instead of in the executable, you should load them from this file instead. To do this, you must also cause them to be scanned when the DOC file is generated by editing ../src/Makefile.in.in and rerunning configure. site-start.el This is loaded each time XEmacs starts up, before the user's .emacs file. default.el This is loaded each time XEmacs starts up, after the user's .emacs file, unless .emacs sets the variable inhibit-default-init to t. version.el This contains the version information for XEmacs.