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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 00:02:43 -0700
> 
> 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's not hard, so we have no good reasons to do that.