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Re: [h-e-w] problems with source-directory
From: |
Jim Davidson |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] problems with source-directory |
Date: |
13 Nov 2001 12:29:51 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/21.1 |
Jason Rumney writes:
> The only places where I can find this used is `update-file-autoloads'
> in emacs-lisp/autoload.el and `info-initialize' in info.el.
> The former is only useful for regenerating loaddefs.el, and you would
> only need to do that if you were hacking on the source.
I'm using update-file-autoloads. I often download packages that have
;;;###autoload directives in the code. Every so often, I regenerate my local
loaddefs.el so that these local packages have appropriate entries. That
way, the packages are autoloaded when needed.
> It is not unreasonable to assume that the source should be installed in such
> a case.
OK. However, the problem is not with the fact that the source is installed,
but that the value of source-directory is wrong. Currently (ntemacs 21.1)
source-directory defaults to:
"c:/andrewi/emacs-21.1/"
That directory doesn't exist on my machine (or, I venture, anyone except
Andrew's).
If a utility like update-file-autoloads is going to use source-directory,
the value should default to something real.
-Jim