Re: Compilation order. Help with makefiles, please!

[Richard Stallman]

    > That is quite different from `require', and I don't think we should
    > change `require' to do that.  But we could add it as a separate new
    > feature, perhaps called `compilation-require'.

    > What do you think about that?

    cc-bytecomp implements this sort of thing.  Possibly its functionality
    could be absorbed into Emacs 23.

It sounds like you're saying that this approach would work as a solution.

What do others think of it?