From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: config.in Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:58:33 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87g01vbhzi.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <1018986015.10524.108.camel@space-ghost> <1676-Wed17Apr2002000044+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200204181845.g3IIjUp00524@aztec.santafe.edu> <200204201726.g3KHQZx01297@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019404834 31428 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2002 16:00:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:00:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 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 16zJlS-0008An-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:00:34 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16zJlj-0001je-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:00:52 +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 16zJlE-0005Ct-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:00:20 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zJjY-000576-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Charybdis.suse.de [213.95.15.201]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F106B1E5CF; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:58:35 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Yow: Why was I BORN? In-Reply-To: <200204201726.g3KHQZx01297@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:26:35 -0600 (MDT)") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) 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:2941 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2941 Richard Stallman writes: |> I have already extended make-dist to fix the timestamps for distribution. |> |> Ordinary make has to fix the timestamps too, and touch the generated |> files, when you are building from CVS. It should not attempt |> to run autoconf unless the user says `make configure' or `make config.in'. In neither cases the makefile caters for CVS timestamp issues at the moment. Doing it right would require a script like gcc_update from the gcc repository, since make cannot know whether the timestamp difference comes from modifying configure.in or from CVS update. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."