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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system |
Date: | Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:51:36 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> I think the fixed Makefile code would remain unpleasantly fragile, >> and the witness-path computation is best moved to the >> configure stage. > I've never understood the need for having the last-repository-change > date affect the build, and would favor removing all the > vcswitness stuff. Simple: - "make autoloads" causes an undesirable re-dump even when no autoload changed. - for that reason "autoloads" is not in the dependencies and is not always run. So the vcswitness is a completely opportunistic hack which forces a "make autoloads" every once in a while. Stefan
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