Re: [Monotone-devel] package_full_revision.txt and derived files

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 08:01:13PM +0100, Patrick Mauritz wrote:
> the attached patch guards most (I think all) txt2c executions with a 
> cmp(1) call to check if anything actually changed (similar to the 
> procedure with config.h in the configure script).

Huh, does this work?

(I had the impression that if make had a dependency A -> B, and make
decided to rebuild B, then make would automatically also rebuild A.
But if make is smarter than that, that would be cool.)

> I'm not sure if that's actually valid, please review.

The code looks fine to me, I just don't know if it will help or not
offhand :-)

-- Nathaniel

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