Subject: Re: Incremental builds and Lisp files dependencies pulling a new version of the code

From: Max Nikulin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 22:50:22 +0700

On 06/05/2023 14:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This doesn't really work, not as long as we use Make: some *.elc files
> might not exist yet, for whatever reasons, so Make will try to
> generate them first, thus disrupting the order of generation that you
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> will try to encode in the dependencies.  We already tried that, and it
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> didn't work, not even just for Org.

Could you, please, be more precise? Do you suspect that Make may start 
building a target before completion of all rules for its prerequisites? 
It sounds like a grave bug in Make.