Re: Makefile.am - nerd question

[Ben Pfaff]

I'm having a little trouble understanding exactly what you're saying.
Let's be precise. I think there are three versions of the line at
issue:
#1: The version before my recent change.
#2: The version after my recent change.
#3: The version we would have if we removed the line entirely.

I found that #1 didn't work for me with my autobuilder and that #2
did. I haven't tried #3.
Which versions work for you?

On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 1:50 PM Friedrich Beckmann
<friedrich.beckmann@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> regarding this line in Makefile.am
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git/tree/Makefile.am#n155
>
> that you changed in your commit
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git/commit/?id=75c0aef55a6135a0398d520519e79df2b3a21e0e
>  .
>
> I removed that line alltogether and I could not find a difference. That line 
> is not sufficient to build the gnulib headers before compiling the c files as 
> the dependency is too late in the dependency list. When I remove it and touch 
> the headers, then a rebuild is still started. I tried to understand the 
> purpose but I could not find one.
>
> Fritz
>
>
>