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On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Karra wrote:

> Is there any good reason for the following behaviour:  _all_ .elc
> files are built from the .el files, even if they are newer than the
> corresponding .el files.

Yes.  Some files contain macros used by other files.  If the macro is
changed, the other file need to be compiled as well.  Maybe someone can
write a makefile dependency generator for elisp, but there isn't one
AFAIK.

Type "make l" if you know the code well enough to feel confident about
only compiling updated lisp files.  This is why a ding.cvs-patches
newsgroup or similar would be useful, btw.