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Re: [PATCH] {master} missing: do not touch timestamps; only warn for out
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [PATCH] {master} missing: do not touch timestamps; only warn for out-of-date files |
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Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:43:11 -0600 |
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On 06/26/2012 04:32 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> I'm almost inclined not to do so, to force the affected
>> projects' broken setup to be fixed; i.e., if you are using Automake 1.11,
>> you let it install the correct 'missing' program, instead of forcing it
>> to use the 'missing' from Automake 1.13.
>
> But developers don't have the impression that they are doing something
> wrong when they use an old 'missing' program.
>
>
> No warning. How is a developer meant to notice that he's doing something
> wrong if 'automake -Wall' does not tell him?
Unfortunately, the automake manual currently states that this behavior
of not warning about out-of-date scripts is already known (although I
argue that we should fix that part of the manual as part of fixing
automake to detect and warn when scripts are outdated):
>> Presently @command{automake} is able to diagnose situations where
>> @file{aclocal.m4} has been generated with another version of
>> @command{aclocal}. However it never checks whether auxiliary scripts
>> are up-to-date. In other words, @command{automake} will tell you when
>> @command{aclocal} needs to be rerun, but it will never diagnose a
>> missing @option{--force-missing}.
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- Re: [PATCH] {master} missing: do not touch timestamps; only warn for out-of-date files, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] {master} missing: do not touch timestamps; only warn for out-of-date files, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/06/26
- Re: [PATCH] {master} missing: do not touch timestamps; only warn for out-of-date files, Bruno Haible, 2012/06/26
- Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade (was: Re: [PATCH] {master} missing: do not touch timestamps; only warn for out-of-date files), Stefano Lattarini, 2012/06/26
- Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade, Eric Blake, 2012/06/26
- Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/06/26
- Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade, Eric Blake, 2012/06/26
- Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/06/26
- Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade, Bruno Haible, 2012/06/26
- Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade, Eric Blake, 2012/06/26
- Re: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade, Eric Blake, 2012/06/26
- Re: [PATCH] {master} missing: do not touch timestamps; only warn for out-of-date files,
Eric Blake <=