Move a comment from lisp/Makefile.in to lisp/loadup.el.
The comment in Makefile.in has been orphaned ever since the bootstrap-prepare rule was removed in 2008.
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@ -414,19 +414,6 @@ $(CAL_DIR)/hol-loaddefs.el: $(CAL_SRC)
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--eval "(setq make-backup-files nil)" \
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-f batch-update-autoloads $(CAL_DIR)
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# Prepare a bootstrap in the lisp subdirectory.
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#
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# Build loaddefs.el to make sure it's up-to-date. If it's not, that
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# might lead to errors during the bootstrap because something fails to
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# autoload as expected. If there is no emacs binary, then we can't
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# build autoloads yet. In that case we have to use ldefs-boot.el.
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# Bootstrap should always work with ldefs-boot.el. Therefore,
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# whenever a new autoload cookie gets added that is necessary during
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# bootstrapping, ldefs-boot.el should be updated by overwriting it with
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# an up-to-date copy of loaddefs.el that is uncorrupted by
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# local changes. (Because loaddefs.el is an automatically generated
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# file, we don't want to store it in the source repository).
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bootstrap-clean:
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cd $(lisp); rm -f *.elc */*.elc */*/*.elc */*/*/*.elc $(AUTOGENEL)
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(load "button")
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(load "startup")
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;; We don't want to store loaddefs.el in the repository because it is
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;; a generated file; but it is required in order to compile the lisp files.
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;; When bootstrapping, we cannot generate loaddefs.el until an
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;; emacs binary has been built. We therefore compromise and keep
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;; ldefs-boot.el in the repository. This does not need to be updated
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;; as often as the real loaddefs.el would. Bootstrap should always
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;; work with ldefs-boot.el. Therefore, Whenever a new autoload cookie
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;; gets added that is necessary during bootstrapping, ldefs-boot.el
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;; should be updated by overwriting it with an up-to-date copy of
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;; loaddefs.el that is uncorrupted by local changes.
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;; autogen/update_autogen can be used to periodically update ldefs-boot.
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(condition-case nil
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;; Don't get confused if someone compiled this by mistake.
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(load "loaddefs.el")
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