Subject: Re: bug#5191: 23.1.90; Make target compile-main fails under GNU/Linux Kernel 2.6.16

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:36:01 -0500

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:21:23 -0500
> Cc: Harald Maier <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>,
> 	[email-masked]
> 
> > + -include $(lisp)/.elcfiles
> 
> This is sadly not portable.
> We could indeed put the list of elcfiles in a file, and then use
> 
>   xargs make <.elcfiles

If we eventually decide to go this way, please don't use a file name
that begins with a dot: apart of being disallowed on DOS filesystems,
such a file is hidden from `ls' and other commands, which in this case
does not seem to be justified, since this is a file generated by the
build.