Re: duplicate automake runs? [patch: Makefile.in in subdir not generated]

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Ilya,

* Ilya N. Golubev wrote on Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 05:40:03PM CEST:
> > causes duplicate automake reruns in the common case
> > where toplevel Makefile.am is updated.
> 
> Explicitly tried avoid that, and stated that in change log entry:
> 
> > Added elimination of
> > duplicate `$(AUTOMAKE)' invocation.

Except my testing showed that your patch doesn't always avoid it.
That's why I wrote the test case.  Please try the testcase with
your patch, and you will see that it fails.  If it doesn't fail,
then I would like to see VERBOSE=yes output of the succeeding test.

> Even if that still happens, would rather allow for that.  For automake
> it is not considered better to be broken than to be slow, is it?

Of course slow is better than broken.  However, as far as I can see,
my patch fixes the failure for good, *and* avoids duplicate automake
reruns.  Best of both worlds!  :-)  Or do you see any issue with it?

Thanks,
Ralf