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

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
  > 
  > 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)

IMO if doing things that we need portably is too hard, we should just
switch to requiring GNU make by default.  It is widely available, and
shipped by default on many platforms and it would help simplify and make
easier to maintain a lot of things.