On Sunday 03 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:23:57AM CEST: > > The sleeps were there to make generated autotools files strictly > > newer than their sources; however, this is not necessary, since > > POSIX mandates that make considers files with the same timestamp > > of their dependencies to be up-to-date. > > info Autoconf "Timestamps and Make", in git Autoconf, tells you why > these are good for HP-UX make. > Yes, but the worst that can happen would be that the first $MAKE call is not really a no-op, and some autotools files get rebuilt.
Also, the involved tests currently require GNU make anyway. But I'm planning to enhance them to work with non-GNU make too, so this objection is moot. > > OK for master? I will push in 72 hours if there is no objection. > > I'd say let's omit the patch for safety. > I've no strong feelings here, so if my observation above doesn't sway you, I'll just drop the patch. Thanks, Stefano
