Subject: Re: bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull"

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:24:27 -0700

On 04/26/2017 11:32 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> After more investigation, I believe this is unfixable, given the
> limitations of recursive make.

How about if we switch to nonrecursive make? That is, have the top-level 
makefile include the subsidiary makefiles, instead of having it run 
$(MAKE) for each subsidiary makefile. This would be a major change, but 
it has some real advantages, and other projects (e.g., coreutils) have 
switched to this approach to good effect.