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,  Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
> Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 23:05:06 -0400
> 
> 
> >> doing what you want boils down to making the `compile:' target
> >> depend on all the .elc files; the rest will be done automatically by
> >> Make.
> 
> But how to do this without hard-coding the names of all the .elc files?

And what's wrong with hard-coding them, exactly?

If you are worried about maintenance, then we could have a
maintainer-only target that would update the list, and that target
could use GNU Make features, like you suggest below.

> With GNU make, I would try something like:
> 
>   compile: $(shell find . -name '*.el' | sed 's/\.el$$/.elc/' )
> 
> but I'm sure this is not portable.

Actually, you don't need the Sed part, as $(FOO:.el=.elc) is portable.