On 08/11/2011 12:28 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
* modules/configmake (configmake.h): Update configmake.h's time stamp even if the file does not change. Otherwise, 'make -q' fails. Problem reported by Simon Josefsson in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-08/msg00088.html>.
Ouch. This goes against the idea that configmake.h should not change timestamps if it does not change contents, since it can result in a lot of needless recompilations. I think we need a better solution that involves a stamp file; where C programs that depend on the definitions depend on configmake.h, but make rules that ensure configmake.h is correct instead depend on the stamp file rather than configmake.h, and where the stamp file always has an up-to-date timestamp any time the rules get rerun even if configmake.h does not change.
-- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
