Re: ELCFILES [was Re: Updating org-mode in Emacs]

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

  > Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
  > 
  > > It was the only way I could find to allow parallel byte-compiling that
  > > was compatible with portable Makefile syntax. I certainly appreciate
  > > the speed-up that allows.
  > 
  > Parallel byte-compiling without proper dependencies following
  > require/load does not work anyway.  You can get random build failures
  > when one process is writing the same elc file while another one is
  > reading it.

Then can't we just not read elc files when byte compiling, just read the
original elisp?  If this is not acceptable all the time, we could at
least do it when bootstrapping...  Didn't someone mention patch to
implement this behavior?