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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Compute build dependencies to fix byte compile\r
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+Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> writes:\r
+>\r
+> This patch addresses these problems by computing make dependency rules\r
+> from the (require 'x) forms in the Elisp source files, which we inject\r
+> into make's dependency database.\r
+\r
+this seems to work as advertised.\r
+\r
+> +;;\r
+> +;; Copyright =C2=A9 Austin Clements\r
+\r
+I guess you need a copyright year?\r
+\r
+> + ;; Is it a (require 'x) form?\r
+> + (when (and (listp form) (=3D (length form) 2)\r
+> + (eq (car form) 'require)\r
+> + (listp (cadr form)) (=3D (length (cadr form)) 2)\r
+> + (eq (car (cadr form)) 'quote)\r
+> + (symbolp (cadr (cadr form))))\r
+\r
+This might be a corner case, but formally can't the argument to require\r
+be a variable or even a function call? Maybe this never happens in\r
+practice.\r