Re: gettext-0.14.2 fails on parallel build

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:08:06PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
>   mv -f elc-temp $@
.. 
>   mv -f elc-temp $@ || { touch $@; rm -f elc-temp; }

But this change is incorrect.  It canmcels the whole trick:

        touch tmp
        ...
        mv tmp $@

ensures that the stamp file will be older than the files created by
"...".

If the rule were:
        ...
        touch $@
then each make would rebuild the files, with new stamp.

Though with your code it doesn't happen always, the problem is still there.

Stepan