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

[Lute Kamstra]

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.