From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk: Build error on FreeBSD Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:00:56 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <505E0AE8.4090908@cs.ucla.edu> References: <86ipbfptdr.wl%hskuhra@eumx.net> <50544B5F.6060806@cs.ucla.edu> <85ehm3e9df.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <85vcfc94to.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <50579B90.5000808@cs.ucla.edu> <5057A62D.7030006@cs.ucla.edu> <85ehlzxuxm.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <505D6B6C.10006@cs.ucla.edu> <85r4pu73s6.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <505D9B4D.3050407@cs.ucla.edu> <85mx0i71ea.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <85392a6sb4.fsf@iznogoud.viz> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348340467 16059 80.91.229.3 (22 Sep 2012 19:01:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:01:07 +0000 (UTC) To: Andreas Schwab , "Herbert J. Skuhra" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 22 21:01:11 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TFUww-000619-SW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:01:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFUws-0005NR-9n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54811) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFUwp-0005NL-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:01:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFUwo-0002W4-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:01:03 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:37673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFUwo-0002W0-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8A939E8013; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:01:01 -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 hGYq1ttaF1aM; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:01:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-108-23-119-2.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.23.119.2]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0E5D339E8007; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:01:01 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: <85392a6sb4.fsf@iznogoud.viz> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153470 Archived-At: On 09/22/2012 07:32 AM, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote: > It seems that autoreconf hasn't seen a need > to update configure, which ends up being older than config.status. OK, thanks, but in that case, since 'configure' hasn't changed, why is there a need to touch it? I am guessing that the touch is to force 'make' to rebuild 'config.status'. But why bother? If 'configure' hasn't changed, 'config.status' should not need to be rebuilt.