Re: Autoload and relative file names

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> The function that generates autoload, autoload-generate-file-autoloads,
> enters just the file name without extension in the generated autoloads.
> 
> This means that the file with the autoloaded functions must be in
> load-path. This is not always what is desired.
> 
> The function `load' (that I assume does the loading later) can use file
> names that are relative to any entry in `load-path'. I think it would be
> quite useful to be able to generate the autoload section such that it
> uses a file name relative to load-path. This could be done by adding a
> new parameter, the directory to make the relative file name against.

... but it is much easier to change autoload-file-load-name which I have
just adviced ...