Re: running automake

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From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Mon Jan 18 1999 - 11:56:45 EST


On Jan 18, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:

>> Another possibility has just come to my mind: marker is *very* fast.
>> Therefore, it may sometimes create files that depend on one another
>> with identical timestamps. Next time `make' looks at them, it will
>> rebuild the dependent file, just to be on the safe side.

> Hmmm, but why hasn't this happened before?

Dunno; maybe it has something to do with the include-forwarders I
created to replace the soft-links... If you run into this again,
check whether the first files to be rebuilt are rebuilt again when you
restart the build.

> This would then be a bug, of course.

I don't think this is the case. No file depends on any stamp file.

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Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil


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