DONTCOMPILE in lisp/Makefile.in doesn't work.

[Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra.lists@xs4all.nl>]

Do I understand correctly that DONTCOMPILE in lisp/Makefile.in is a
list of lisp files that should not be compiled?  If so, it doesn't
work.  Here is the relevant target (the target recompile is similar):

# NOTE about DONTCOMPILE: in the `echo <foo> | sort | uniq -u' we pass
# $(DONTCOMPILE) twice.  This is in case one of the files in DONTCOMPILE
# is absent.  -stef

compile: $(lisp)/subdirs.el doit
	find $(lisp) -name "*.elc" -print | xargs chmod +w >/dev/null 2>&1; \
	wd=$(lisp); $(setwins);	\
	elpat=`echo $$wins | tr ' 	' '\012\012' | \
		sed -e 's|\(.\)$$|\1/|' -e 's|^\./||' -e 's|$$|*.el|'`;	\
	els=`echo $$elpat $(DONTCOMPILE) $(DONTCOMPILE) $(COMPILE_FIRST) | \
		tr '	 ' '\012\012' | sort | uniq -u`; \
	for el in $(COMPILE_FIRST) $$els; do \
	  if test -f $$el; \
	  then \
	    echo Compiling $$el; \
	    $(emacs) -f batch-byte-compile-if-not-done $$el || exit 1; \
	  fi \
	done

If I understand this correctly, the command happily tries to compile
all files in DONTCOMPILE.  (Most of the files don't actually get
compiled because they set no-byte-compile via local variables.)

Isn't it better to just do away with DONTCOMPILE and just rely on lisp
files setting no-byte-compile?

Lute.