Subject: bug#17292: 24.3.90; ELPA : "make" makes an error compiling ada-build.el

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:29:41 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 22:50:10 -0400
> Cc: Nicolas Richard <[email-masked]>, [email-masked],
> 	Stephen Leake <[email-masked]>
> 
> > -	    -L $(dir $@) -f batch-byte-compile $<
> > +	    $(patsubst %, -L %, $(filter-out %/cl-lib, $(pkgs))) \
> > +	    -f batch-byte-compile $<
>  
> I'd rather not go there.

Why?  Once you require GNU Make, what's the reason not to use its
facilities?