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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,  dann@ics.uci.edu
> Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 15:34:55 -0400
> 
> Is there a good reference for what is portable? Ideally, for what
> Emacs wants to support...

Not that I know of.

> Can I portably use this kind of thing:
> 
> lispfiles1 = $(lisp)/*.el
> lispfiles2 = $(lisp)/*/*.el
> elcfiles1 = $(lispfiles1:.el=.elc)
> elcfiles2 = $(lispfiles2:.el=.elc)
> 
> compile: $(elcfiles1) $(elcfiles2)
> 
> ?

I'm nor sure.  But I don't consider myself an expert on this; I
suggest to post a question to help-make@gnu.org, there are a few
people there that can run circles around what I know about Make.  In
fact, perhaps it's a good idea to ask them what would be the best way
of portably introducing parallelism into lisp/Makefile.in, they could
come up with some interesting ideas.