> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:29:38 -0400 > From: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> > Cc: 9...@debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org > > > The unnecessary "make" actions would fill up people's screens, > > and would be confusing. > > They fill up my screen already, as things are now. > > > I'm afraid this cure would be worse than the disease. > > I feel there's some kind of misunderstanding here, because with my > proposal, nothing will happen that doesn't already happen. Perhaps > you could show in more detail which Make actions would happen that > doesn't happen now.
Perhaps you thought that a mere "make", even without re-running `configure', will trigger these rules. But that is not the case: as long as config.status is not updated, these rules will not be triggered, since unistd.h etc. will always be newer than the corresponding *.in.h templates, due to the fact that move-if-change _will_ overwrite them with newer versions whenever there's a real change in the *.in.h templates. Am I missing something?
