Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

> I've investigated a little and suspect that the rebuild happens
> in tests/wc because the time stamp on tests/wc/Makefile.am
> is exactly the same as the one on its dependent, tests/Makefile.am.in.
> GNU make doesn't rebuild in that case, but HPUX's make does, hence
> the failure you noticed.

Aha, that explains why the rule triggered in the first place.

I had a similar problem with the cvs version of gdb.  Files checked in
with the same 'cvs commit' end up with the same time stamp.  I fixed it
in gdb simply by touching some of the generated files and committing
them.

Michael C