Re: Trunk: Build error on FreeBSD

[Paul Eggert]

On 09/23/2012 04:42 AM, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
>> > 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.
> You introduced this additional rebuilding two weeks ago, in rev. 109962:

I'm afraid that isn't enough for me to understand why
the touch would be needed, but I did see a related problem
and fixed it in trunk bzr 110154, and perhaps that also
addresses the 'touch' issue, whatever it is.