Re: [improved] Fix building autoconf.1 [trivial]

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:32:11PM -0800, Noah Misch wrote:
> +autoconf.1:   $(common_dep) $(srcdir)/autoconf.x   $(binsrcdir)/autoconf.as
>  autoheader.1: $(common_dep) $(srcdir)/autoheader.x $(binsrcdir)/autoheader.in

looking at these, I see a potential problem: imagine this scenario:

- edit autoconf.as
- make -C man
- make all

The man files are newer than autoconf.as, so they won't get regenerated, yet
they are wrong--extracted from an obsolete version of the script.

Of course, Alexandre had tought me that a distributed file cannot depend on
a non-distributed one.  But I hope the attached patch has the *.stamp trick
right.

Another comment: why are the *.x files listed in the dependences?  I think
that it is enough that the .x suffix is in the pattern rule.  Thus I removed
them.

Have a nice weekend,
        Stepan

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