>> > Paul, I think this discussion pointed out that there are no advantages
>> > to your change, while it does have disadvantages.
>> Hmm... it does have the advantage of speeding up compilation by
>> eliminating one `ld` call
> By how much?

I didn't bother to measure it, but I felt like it is a noticeable
difference in some of my use cases (because I sometimes noticed that
the make was stopped while linking temacs.in, and because it is also
often stopped while linking temacs).

> is it significant enough to countermand the disadvantages?

It all depends on your beliefs, not on technical issues, I think.

The fingerprint is not guaranteed foolproof when computed from the *.o
files and is not guaranteed foolproof when made from the temacs.in
file either.