Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 03:37, Max Bowsher wrote: > >>> Ok, well I'm going to practice delegation here: Max - when you look >>> at zlib, can you ensure that the timestamps on zlib's autotool >>> files are correctly ordered? >> >> Delegation accepted, but I think it's potentially more complicated >> than that. I'll dig up some docs on the subject. > > Nyah, its not complicated: > the autoconf and automake files are timestamped. If you run make dist > in an automake project in the zlib directory, you'll get a 'pristine' > tarball with monotonically increasing dates across the source and > generated files. Similarly for autoconf without automake, you need to > produce (from memory) > configure.in <= acinclude.m4 < aclocal.m4 < autoconf.h.in < configure. > > That needs to be reflected in CVS.
I've remembered the complication I mentioned: cvs checkout recreates timestamps from the repository, but cvs update does not. However, this won't bother us, since we hardly ever update the zlib/bz2lib/rsync subdirs. I'll verify the order you quote above, and make appropriate changes to CVS. Max.