From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INSTALL-CVS Date: 04 Jun 2003 10:38:34 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <16086.31800.692970.193443@nick.uklinux.net> <16090.26460.514633.853505@nick.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054749034 9433 80.91.224.249 (4 Jun 2003 17:50:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 17:50:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 04 19:50:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NcOP-0002Nh-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:49:45 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Ncg5-0005wc-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 20:08:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NcP8-0003q7-Vm for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:50:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NcKl-0002Xu-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:45:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NcF4-00016d-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NcDf-0000X5-3X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:38:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NcBL-0001FI-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:36:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NcBJ-0001Ez-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:36:13 +0200 Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14701 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14701 >>>>> Andreas Schwab writes: > David Masterson writes: > |> >>>>> Richard Stallman writes: > |> > |> > However, I guess it would be harmless now to change it so that > |> > top-level `make all' updates the Info files but does not > |> > generate the DVI files. > |> > |> Suggestion -- have the configure script 'touch' the Info files as > |> the last thing it does if and only if they exist at the time of > |> the 'configure'. > This is counter-productive, because then if you rerun configure when > the info files are out-of-date they won't be rebuilt. I think I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure why anyone would *rerun* configure in a "built" environment and not do something like 'make clean' first. Perhaps the 'touch' could be done only on first run of configure? -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA