Quoting Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Rob, do you have any idea about how to fix this? > > The only thing I've thought of so far is to change debian/rules to not > rely on timestamps for this file. Instead keep a file of the md5sums > of the *.dpatch files and use that and cmp to determine when to > re-generate. i.e. (in psudeo-make code): > > define update_autofiles_diff_if_needed > md5sum debian/*.dpatch > debian/tmp-dpatch.md5 > if ! cmp debian/dpatch.md5 debian/tmp-dpatch.md5; \ > then \ > $(update_debian_autofiles_diff); \ > md5sum debian/*.dpatch > debian/dpatch.md5; \ > fi > endef > > Then I'd just have to arrange for this action to be taken at all the > appropriate times. A bit ugly perhaps, but it looks like it might > work.
To my mind, we should avoid to do this automatically from the makefile and generate a dpatch manually every we have to regenerate the configure script. Currently, the only file which is modified when changing configure.in is configure, so this should be straightforward. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant
