Re: Trunk: Build error on FreeBSD

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

On Sun, Sep 23 2012, Paul Eggert wrote:

> 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.

Two weeks ago, /you/ introduced the `config.status --recheck', which
runs configure and rebuilds config.status, unconditionally, without
regard to configure having changed or not.  /I/ thought you had good
reasons for that and so I made sure that my changes preserved this
behaviour (by touching configure).  Now, you changed your mind about
unconditionally rebuilding config.status.  Fine.

Wolfgang