Re: reftex.el autoloads

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:03:30 +0000
> 
> --- a/lisp/textmodes/reftex.el
> +++ b/lisp/textmodes/reftex.el
> @@ -2397,7 +2397,7 @@ reftex-report-bug
>  ^L
>  ;;; Start of automatically extracted autoloads.
>  ^L
> -;;;### (autoloads nil "reftex-auc" "reftex-auc.el" 
> "cf606f7918831321cb46f254436dc66e")
> +;;;### (autoloads nil "reftex-auc" "reftex-auc.el" 
> "7c0e0b46919f4ceefe1026e31e73ebcd")
>  ;;; Generated autoloads from reftex-auc.el
>  
>  (autoload 'reftex-arg-label "reftex-auc" "\
> 
> 
> So, it appears that reftex.el is actually partially real source and
> partially generated during the normal build, which doesn't seem a good
> thing to me.

These are autoloads.  Several files, reftex.el among them, record
autoloads for their parent packages.  Other examples include dired.el,
esh-groups.el, and rmail.el.  Grep the Lisp files for
'generated-autoload-file:' (without the quotes), and you will see them
all.

> Am I missing something?

Not sure, but this is normal.

> And is there a good way to fix it?

You mean, for the bisect script?  Just "git checkout" the offending
file after the build, that's all.