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> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:44:34 +0200
> 
> > Because "make updates" also does "make update-subdirs", which is
> > almost always unnecessary,
> 
> update-subdirs is much faster than other updates so it doesn't hurt to
> call this target after every CVS update.

That depends on how fast is your machine and your filesystem.  I have
sometimes to work on platforms where update-subdirs is annoyingly
slow.

In any case, I always thought Make was invented precisely so
unnecessary commands would not be run, even if they don't take long
time.

> > and includes the mh-autoloads target, which is already part of "make
> > recompile".
> 
> Then it should be removed.

>>From where? from "make recompile"?  I thought it was there for a
good reason.  Bill, could you please comment on this?