Re: question about autotools within GNU make itself

2018-01-22 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Jan 16 2018, Paul Smith wrote: > The automake generated makefiles know how to rebuild Makefile.in, > Makefile, configure, etc. based on the out-of-date-ness of the base > files such as configure.ac and Makefile.am. So if those files are > updated, then the makefile will attempt to re-run thos

Re: question about autotools within GNU make itself

2018-01-16 Thread David Boyce
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > I think if you really wanted to pursue this, it might be worthwhile > creating a little script that updated the timestamps on all files to > still have their relative timestamp relationship, but just newer. For > example you could sort all th

Re: question about autotools within GNU make itself

2018-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 09:13 -0800, David Boyce wrote: > It looks like the touching not only destroys incremental build > capability (expected and not an issue) but toggles the makefile into > "developer mode". > > I'm not looking for any changes here, just wondering whether anyone > knows which fi