Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:50:02 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> 
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > I think the fixed Makefile code would
> > remain unpleasantly fragile, and the witness-path computation is
> > best moved to the configure stage.
> 
> I've never understood the need for having the
> last-repository-change date affect the build, and
> would favor removing all the vcswitness stuff.

How else would you trigger refresh of loaddefs.el?  Suggestions are
welcome.