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Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I think it should be easy to generate the dependencies from bytecomp.el
> (just record macros as we expand them, and then try and figure out
> which file they come from).  This way they could be kept uptodate
> 100% automatically.

What exactly is the point of doing this supposed to be?
To make non-bootstrap builds more reliable?