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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: CVS Bug? or User error?
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Karl Berry |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: CVS Bug? or User error? |
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Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:52:33 -0400 |
>My understanding is that if you had arranged for getdate.c to be newer
>than getdate.y
FWIW, I sadly have to agree that it's better just to omit the rules for
rebuilding except with --enable-maintainer-mode. The reason is that
importing/checking out from other source trees can easily lose time
stamps. (It's worse for the autoconf-rerunning rules than yacc rules,
but the same principle.) It's a big hassle in practice with no real
upside -- the extremely few people who actually want to modify a .y
source would have no problem saying --enable-maintainer-mode, I imagine.
I changed various Texinfo rebuilding rules to be
--enable-maintainer-mode for this reason. It hasn't been a problem and
has stopped the infrequent but incessant reports about "I tried to make
texinfo after [importing into my source tree], but it ran autoconf and
now it doesn't work".
Just reporting my experience ...
Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: CVS Bug? or User error?, Paul Eggert, 2004/06/01