bug#8302: 23.3; Parallel make: some *.el files are byte-compiled twice

[Glenn Morris]

Dan Nicolaescu wrote:

>> Or, $lisp could be in a separate lisp.mk file that configure could
>> include into src/Makefile, and then for DOC use something like:
>>
>>   $(libsrc)/make-docfile -a $(etc)/DOC \
>>     -d $(srcdir) `sed 's|$(lispsource)|../lisp|' $(srcdir)/lisp.mk`

Works for me; committed.

> Or even better make make-docfile accept arguments from a file, using the
> @FILE syntax used by other GNU tools.  That would deal with the command
> line length limitations.

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7397

By itself, I don't see how this helps, since you still need to find a
way to write the input file without overflowing the command line length.