Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el

[Richard Stallman]

    When I do
    make bootstrap,
    /home/tmp/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el gets overwritten, resulting in a
    file considered modified by CVS.  Since the whole point of building
    Emacs in a separate directory was to leave the CVS checkout
    untouched, this is unsatisfactory.

It would be reasonable to always update loaddefs.el in the build
directory.  If you want to check in a new version of loaddefs.el, you
can build it in the source directory.

The next question is, how hard would it be to implement this?  We'd
have to arrange for temacs to read loaddefs.el from somewhere in the
build directory if it exists there.  That is surely possible but would
not be trivial.