[PATCH] Revised parallel build support.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "viteno" == Norbert Koch <viteno at xemacs.org> writes:

    viteno> Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp at xemacs.org> writes:

    >> Did you regenerate configure from configure.in?

    viteno> Apparently not :-)

    viteno> Now, the Makefile looks much better and the build
    viteno> succeeds.

We should fix this; I really don't think it needs to be.

Proposal: Have a top-level initial Makefile that looks like

configure: configure.in
	autoconf
	echo "If autoconf succeeded, you should now run configure."
	echo "If it did not, you should complain to the developers for"
	echo "not providing an up-to-date configure."

and add a similar stanza to Makefile.in.in, or maybe even something
helpful enough to do a ./config.status --recheck after autoconf.

What breaks?  I mean, worse than what just happened to Norbert?

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