Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Ralf,

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 01:22:31PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:26:34PM CEST:
> [sleep before the first aclocal call]

thank you that you kindly repeated the explanation for me.
I apologize that I was not able to see it in your previous mail.

> > Why does stamp has to be younger than configure?
> 
> ... the output of `ls -1t configure newer'

Oh, so the extra sleep is the result that you are not using
        find configure -newer stamp

> > [am_AUTORECONF]
> is merely an optimization, is does not harm execution.

I did not understand that the eventual omission of this code is
actually harmless.  Thanks for your explanation.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan