From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9106: 24.0.50; ./configure causes massive recompilation Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:58:48 -0700 Message-ID: <4E266E98.4010901__31190.7699252062$1311141725$gmane$org@cs.ucla.edu> References: <4E2623CA.8090805@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311141725 10716 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2011 06:02:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:02:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9106@debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 20 08:01:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QjPr2-0001CI-Dh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:01:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42363 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjPr1-0005xp-Il for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjPoK-0005Yb-12 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjPoI-00065v-1I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47470) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjPoH-00065q-MK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QjPoF-0000c7-SC; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:59:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:59:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9106 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9106-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9106.13111415422355 (code B ref 9106); Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:59:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9106) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Jul 2011 05:59:02 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QjPoD-0000bs-Ix for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QjPoB-0000bg-85 for 9106@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:59:00 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A3E839E80F8; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:58:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kkla6DBxQaYt; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EBC4A39E80E0; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:58:52 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110617 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:59:03 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:49462 Archived-At: On 07/19/2011 10:24 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > What I'm suggesting is to replace the last command ("mv $@-t $@") with > this: > > move-if-change $@-t $@ > > That's it. Make will indeed cheerfully regenerate unistd.h-t ... and alloca.h-t. And getopt.h-t. And the other ten .h-t files that are generated on typical platforms. And this would occur every time one does a 'make', even when there's no real work to do. The unnecessary "make" actions would fill up people's screens, and would be confusing. I'm afraid this cure would be worse than the disease.