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bug#22213: 24.5; please allow specification or elimination of timestamp


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: bug#22213: 24.5; please allow specification or elimination of timestamp in autoloads
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 02:42:12 -0500
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> But for autoloads.el in general this is not true because of the
> existence of entry points such as update-file-autoloads which mean that
> the autoloads file may be updated for some of the files it covers rather
> than for all of them.

I think there are a lot of cases (the majority?) where we know that this
kind of partial update simply isn't going to happen.

I added an option to use the output file's modtime instead.
Seems to work ok for me, but I've left it using the previous method by
default.






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