Re: build broken: no defun org-float-time. Who's guilty, and what does he propose?

[Ken Raeburn]

On Sep 7, 2009, at 14:42, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> A further question:
>
> What can the Emacs that compiles the libraries do? Can it hold the
> dependency tree and start subprocesses for compilation? Or is that a
> bad idea?

My initial thought is that we should let make do that, since it's  
already got the machinery for dealing with multiple processes running  
in parallel (necessary if you want to take full advantage of modern  
multicore machines), implementing limits on the number of active  
processes, etc.  Having the Emacs process just generate or update the  
list of dependencies in the makefile is probably good enough.

Ken