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From: Martin Pottendorfer <Martin.Pottendorfer@aut.alcatel.at>
To: "xemacs-beta@xemacs.org Subject":Re:Patch.problem.In-Reply-To:

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hi,

> Marc Aurel <4-tea-2@bong.saar.de> writes: > Trying to apply
> /xemacs-20.1final2-20.2-b1.patch.gz/ using /patch > 2.1/ produced
> the following error message...  > <snip> > Hmm...  The next patch
> looks like a unified diff to me...  > The text leading up to this
> was: > -------------------------- > |Index:
> xemacs-20.0/lisp/prim/auto-autoloads.el

had same problem.

>  For auto-autoloads.el (and custom-load.el) you could try doing a
> `make autoloads' from the top level directory to recreate them
> before giving up.

this failed in lisp/auctex:
 Updating autoloads for directory
/local/pottendo/gnu-inst/build/xemacs-20.2-b1/lisp/auctex...
 No autoloads found in auctex/auc-old.el
 No autoloads found in auctex/bib-cite.el
 No autoloads found in auctex/font-latex.el
 Generating autoloads for auctex/latex.el...
 No autoloads found in auctex/lpath.el
 No autoloads found in auctex/multi-prompt.el
 No autoloads found in auctex/tex-buf.el
 Generating autoloads for auctex/tex-info.el...
 Generating autoloads for auctex/tex-jp.el...
 Unbalanced parentheses
 XEmacs exiting.
 make: *** [autoloads] Error 255

to work around this problem i moved auctex/tex-jp.el away and then
`make autoloads' succeeded.

is there any reason (except tex-jp.el) why the `autoloads' make target
is not done by default (e.g. during `make beta' ? btw. the `tex-jp.el'
build problem should be dealt with anyway.

this would avoid the `patch-failures-with-generated-files' problem.
gnu-patch users are lucky since patch tells about its troubles and
stops, but sun-patch fails silently (at least on my machine here),
which lead to funny results.

IMHO all files which are generated should really be generated when
doing `make all-elc'; therefore it's no need to distribute patches of
`lisp/prim/autoloads.el'.

any thoughts ?
martin

