Re: `make emacs' recompiles?

[Paul Eggert]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> I did `make temacs' and it compiled the .c files and linked them.
> Then I did `make emacs' and it compiled them again!  Why does this
> happen?  Is it intentional?

I reproduced the problem and don't think it's intentional:
it was due to some convoluted timestamp logic when dealing
with the oldXMenu code.  I fixed the problem that I observed
and installed the fix as trunk bzr 115169.