> On 18 Aug 2022, at 21:01, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2022-08-18 at 20:18 +0100, Sam James wrote:
>> Emacs 29's NEWS says: "The autoload.el library is now obsolete."
>>
>> ...
>>
>> ${EMACS} ${EMACSFLAGS} \
>> + --eval "(require 'autoload)" \
>> --eval "(setq make-backup-files nil)" \
>> --eval "(setq generated-autoload-file (expand-file-name
>> \"${f}\"))" \
>> -f batch-update-autoloads "${@-.}"
>
> The batch-update-autoloads docstring says that it "calls 'update-
> directory-autoloads' on the command line arguments." The function
> update-directory-autoloads is, in turn, obsoleted in favor of loaddefs-
> generate from loaddefs-gen.el (which replaces autoload.el).
>
> Can we bypass the obsolete autoload.el entirely here, instead calling
> loaddefs-generate directly?
>
> It looks like it might be new as of Emacs 29, so we'd need to handle older versions somehow. We could do it based on the Emacs version though if the eclass has machinery for checking that (new to poking at this area).
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