Re: [PATCHES] Various

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

>> This may be because a .ac, .am, or .m4 file is newer than ‘configure’,
>> for instance.  Does any of these get patched, which would explain the
>> newer mtime?  Can it be worked around by changing that file’s mtime
>> using ‘set-file-time’ or similar?
>
> I get the warning even if I just run "./configure && make", outside of
> Guix.  The reason seems to be config/config.h.in being old; touching it
> suppresses the warning, and the build still succeeds.  Is it fine this
> way?

Yes.

> +          (lambda _
> +            (zero? (system* "touch" "config/config.h.in"))))

Would this work:

  (set-file-time "config/config.h.in" (stat "config/config.h"))

?

It would be preferable because independent of the system time, but no
big deal.

OK to push one way or the other.

Thanks,
Ludo’.