Re: configure re-run each time version.el changes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:57:31 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> 
> On 11/13/2014 10:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Why is config.status dependent on lisp/version.el?
> 
> Andreas Schwab added that dependency in 2007 to fix a problem back when 
> Emacs was managed under CVS and did not assume GNU Make.  Please see 
> this thread:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01375.html

Thanks.

> I haven't looked at it carefully, but I wouldn't be surprised if the 
> dependency (or something like it) is still needed.  I'll CC: Andreas to 
> give him a heads-up.

AFAIR, at the time, we updated the Emacs version by grepping
version.el, and perhaps that was the reason for the dependency.  But
nowadays we do that in configure.ac, so I wonder if the version.el
dependency is still needed.