Re: generated version numbers

[Patrick Welche]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 07:47:36AM +0000, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> But apparently something strange is going on, because after we run the
> bootstrap script, if we run "make" we see:
> 
> ...
>        Prerequisite `../version.m4' is newer than target `../config.h.in'.
>        Prerequisite `../aclocal.m4' is newer than target`../config.h.in'.
>       Must remake target `../config.h.in'.
> ...
> 
> And this makes no sense to me because:
> 
> - version.m4 is updated *first* in the bootstrap script
> - autoreconf (which updates aclocal) is done after that
> 
> so obviously I'm missing something.
> 
> I'm continuing to dig into this, and if anybody has any ideas I'd love
> to hear them.

Only - what do the timestamps on version.m4 and config.h.in look like?
Is the bootstrap script too fast? (Clutching at straws)

Cheers,

Patrick