From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 12410@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12410: 24.2.50; `make distclean' runs ./configure before cleaning
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:44:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87627kihdl.fsf@altern.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g6har4v5ez.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:24:36 -0400")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> It can be, yes. IIUC:
>
> Makefile itself has dependencies on eg the various Makefile.in's.
> If these get updated in the repository, configure has to be run to
> regenerate the Makefiles before doing anything else. For example,
> suppose there was a bug in Makefile.in whereby distclean did `rm -rf /'.
> If a fix was checked in, you'd want Makefile to be regenerated before
> doing anything else...
Got it -- thanks,
--
Bastien
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2012-09-11 9:03 bug#12410: 24.2.50; `make distclean' runs ./configure before cleaning Bastien
2012-09-11 17:24 ` Glenn Morris
2012-09-11 17:44 ` Bastien [this message]
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