From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: config.in Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:45:30 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200204181845.g3IIjUp00524@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <87g01vbhzi.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <1018986015.10524.108.camel@space-ghost> <1676-Wed17Apr2002000044+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019155688 25930 127.0.0.1 (18 Apr 2002 18:48:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:48:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il, walters@verbum.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16yGwy-0006k7-00 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:48:08 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16yHGG-0008WK-00 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:08:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16yGwx-0001yZ-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:48:07 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16yGuR-0001lN-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:45:31 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g3IIjUa15493; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:45:30 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g3IIjUp00524; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:45:30 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: miles@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (message from Miles Bader on 17 Apr 2002 10:08:13 +0900) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2747 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2747 Note that even if these generated files are included, they may _still_ need the auto* programs, because CVS makes no attempt to preserve timestamps, and the Makefile will attempt to regenerate the files anyway (though the checked-out contents are actually `up to date'). This does not seem to have been a problem in the past. For a few months I did not have the latest Autoconf and could not regenerate `configure'. This was not a real problem; I ran ./configure and I don't think anything tried to run autoconf. Things may be different now with src/config.in. There now seems to be a Make rule to update that file, so it might try to run automatically. This is no good. We may need to delete the dependency that would run that Make rule, so that it only runs on explicit request (or from `dist'). Or install some sort of touch command instead.