Re: Build-time dependencies

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>,  Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  
> address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:03:07 -0400
> 
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> > I think it should be easy to generate the dependencies from bytecomp.el
> > (just record macros as we expand them, and then try and figure out
> > which file they come from).  This way they could be kept uptodate
> > 100% automatically.
> 
> What exactly is the point of doing this supposed to be?
> To make non-bootstrap builds more reliable?

To make dependencies between Lips files explicit in lisp/Makefile.in,
and thus causing Make to compile Lisp files in the right order.  Right
now, whenever some Lisp files change, I frequently need to "make
recompile" several times, sometimes removing stale *.elc files
manually, until it finally succeeds, because it basically compiles
them in a random order.