Re: INSTALL-CVS

[David Masterson]

>>>>> Andreas Schwab writes:

> David Masterson <address@hidden> writes:
> |> >>>>> Richard Stallman writes:
> |> 
> |> > However, I guess it would be harmless now to change it so that
> |> > top-level `make all' updates the Info files but does not
> |> > generate the DVI files.
> |> 
> |> Suggestion -- have the configure script 'touch' the Info files as
> |> the last thing it does if and only if they exist at the time of
> |> the 'configure'.

> This is counter-productive, because then if you rerun configure when
> the info files are out-of-date they won't be rebuilt.

I think I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure why anyone
would *rerun* configure in a "built" environment and not do something
like 'make clean' first.

Perhaps the 'touch' could be done only on first run of configure?

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Sr. R&D Engineer               Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering           Sunnyvale, CA