Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: package_full_revision.txt and derived files

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:00:03PM +0000, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Something I've seen other Makefiles do is (in this example) to run
> 'monotone status' putting the output somewhere, and overwrite
> package_full_revision.txt only if the output differs from the old
> contents.
> 
> Obviously one can add arbitrary hackiness to Makefiles in this way
> (with similarly obvious problems in keeping it working on all
> platforms).  For the occasional issue like this it seems doable,
> though?

That's exactly what the patch Patrick sent in does, and it's applied
now :-) It wasn't that way in the first place just because I
misunderstood make's cleverness...

-- Nathaniel

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