bug#17292: 24.3.90; ELPA : "make" makes an error compiling ada-build.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 22:50:10 -0400
> Cc: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>, 17292@debbugs.gnu.org,
>       Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> 
> > -       -L $(dir $@) -f batch-byte-compile $<
> > +       $(patsubst %, -L %, $(filter-out %/cl-lib, $(pkgs))) \
> > +       -f batch-byte-compile $<
>  
> I'd rather not go there.

Why?  Once you require GNU Make, what's the reason not to use its
facilities?