Re: Release of CC Mode 5.31

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Cc: rms@gnu.org, mast@lysator.liu.se, romain@orebokech.com,
> 	emacs-devel@gnu.org, bug-cc-mode@gnu.org, henrik.enberg@telia.com,
> 	acm@muc.de
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:51:22 -0500
> 
> > I thought about some Make magic, like making some of the *.elc files
> > dependent on some other *.elc files which need to be compiled first.
> > (We already have COMPILE_FIRST files that work around similar
> > problems.)  Is there any reason why this wouldn't work?
> 
> That would work.  It'd be even better to generate this dependency info
> automatically.  Ideally, the byte-compiler would keep track of which macros
> are used, so that it can automatically generate exact
> dependency information.

WIBNI we had something like "gcc -MM"?

> Note that e.g. if we change the dolist macro, it's not enough to recompile
> subr.el before the other files, since we also need to redump the executable
> after recompiling subr.el.

Well, yeah, I know that there are hard cases where even Make will be
unable to help.  But I think there's a lot to be done before we get
there.