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26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull"

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From: "Phillip Lord" <phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk>
To: "Paul Eggert" <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 26459 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each 'git pull'
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:37:33 -0000

On Wed, April 26, 2017 8:24 pm, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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.


That might help simplify some of the strange stuff in the makefiles --
having the Makefile in src call the Makefile in lisp is confusing.

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