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Re: config.in
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: config.in |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:18:58 +0200 |
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
|> |> Ordinary make has to fix the timestamps too, and touch the generated
|> |> files, when you are building from CVS. It should not attempt
|> |> to run autoconf unless the user says `make configure' or `make
config.in'.
|>
|> In neither cases the makefile caters for CVS timestamp issues at the
|> moment. Doing it right would require a script like gcc_update from the
|> gcc repository, since make cannot know whether the timestamp difference
|> comes from modifying configure.in or from CVS update.
|>
|> If someone wants to "do it right", then by all means do so.
|> But unless and until that happens, we should do something simple:
|> Makefile.in should update configure and src/config.in
|> simply by touching them.
But I expect a simple "make" to update configure and config.in if I modify
configure.in. If the makefile just uses touch then they stay out of
date. This is bad.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- Re: config.in, (continued)
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/18
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/19
- Re: config.in, Kim F. Storm, 2002/04/19
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/19
- Re: config.in, Kim F. Storm, 2002/04/19
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/20
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/21
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/22
- Re: config.in,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/22
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/23
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/24
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/24
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/25
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/26
- Re: config.in, Kim F. Storm, 2002/04/26
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/27
Re: config.in, Pavel Janík, 2002/04/17