Re: Speeding up the bootstrap build - a quick hack.

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:05:08 -0500, Stefan Monnier 
>>>>> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> said:

    >> I think this would be far cleaner and less fragile if you used an
    >> order-only prerequisite instead of inventing new suffixes.

    Stefan> I can't see how that would work.  The current ELC+ELN rules are for
    Stefan> `%.elc`, and here we also need those same `.elc` but built with
    Stefan> another rule.

Now Iʼm confused. We need to build the .elc files twice?

(BTW, if the use of suffix rules is holding us back, I thought we now
required GNU Make, so we could switch to pattern rules).

Robert
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