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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 08:10:57 -0400

>> > -	    -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?

That's not the issue.  The issue is to redo by hand what
package-initialize already does for us.

        Stefan