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Annoyingly cautious make rules


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Annoyingly cautious make rules
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:48:54 -0500

I ran config.status, hoping to avoid the 10 minutes it takes to run
configure on my machine, since I did that yesterday.  But
config.status ran configure.

This is correct in some rigid theoretical sense, but it is nasty to
disregard what the user asks for.

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