Progress: eshell-defgroup. Do we really need this?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Emacs!

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:27:54PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, emacs,

> So back to 'make bootstrap'.  It says "can't find eshell-defgroup".

make bootstrap is generating loaddefs.el with lines like

    (eshell-defgroup eshell-alias nil "Docstring" :tag "Command aliases" 
:gr\oup 'eshell-module)

, and AFTER them the line which should have come first:

    (defalias 'eshell-defgroup 'defgroup)

.  It seems that the loaddefs.el generator first builds these
(eshell-defgroup....) lines in eshell/esh-group.el, and then, somehow,
copies them to loaddefs.el.  The code isn't easy to understand.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).