Re: "make autoloads" signals an error

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: wavexx@thregr.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:13:04 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Hm, yes.  But...  would just prepending the build/lisp/* directories to
> >> load-path fix that issue?  I.e., use the .elc files from build/lisp and
> >> fall back on lisp-directory otherwise?
> >
> > How do you prepend it?  The setting of load-path is done early during
> > startup, see init_lread.
> 
> We'd have to add some facility to Emacs to do so (perhaps via a new
> command line option).

My point was to say it wouldn't be trivial.

> As I said, I'm not sure this is worth doing at all -- but if
> somebody does this, it doesn't sound like it's a major practical
> problem to make this work.
> 
> Probably.

I can go with "probably" ;-)