Re: please make byte compiling during bootstrap take advantage of make -j

[Glenn Morris]

>> doing what you want boils down to making the `compile:' target
>> depend on all the .elc files; the rest will be done automatically by
>> Make.

But how to do this without hard-coding the names of all the .elc files?

With GNU make, I would try something like:

  compile: $(shell find . -name '*.el' | sed 's/\.el$$/.elc/' )

but I'm sure this is not portable.