Re: make ChangeLog NEWS main.c read.c variable.c va...

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 11:48 +0200, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
> > In the other change you made, I think either the code or comment here is
> > wrong:
> > 
> >   /* If the names are the same but ignore_mtimes are not equal, one of these
> >      is an order-only prerequisite and one isn't.  That means that we should
> >      remove the one that isn't and keep the one that is.  */
> > 
> >   if (!cmp && dx->ignore_mtime != dy->ignore_mtime)
> >     dx->ignore_mtime = dy->ignore_mtime = 0;
> 
> Yes, I meant to change this comment but forgot. That code is actually
> quite sneaky. It took me good half and hour to figure who changes
> the ignore_mtime. I went ahead and moved this upgrade logic to 
> set_file_variables where it is more apparent.

Good stuff.  Is there a regression test that exercises this?  Seems like
something we're likely to break in the future if we're not checking it.

Cheers!

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