-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:37:40PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:15:26PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> On Saturday 27 June 2009 21:51:24 Robert Millan wrote: >> > The stamp file used for configure target is config.status, which is >> > always present with configure scripts generated by autoconf. >> > However, not all configure scripts are generated by autoconf. >> > >> > A number of projects ship a script with similar semantics that will >> > generate Makefile but not config.status (qemu and mplayer are two >> > notable examples). >> > >> > I recommend that Makefile is used as stamp file instead. This >> > prevents redundant configure runs on such packages. >> >> But not all configure scripts generate a Makefile either. >> >> A valid solution may be to provide a variable that allows specifying >> the stamp file. But the default has to stay config.status. > >In that case, I think the best solution would be to generate a stamp in >CDBS. Then no matter what configure does, it will always work. How >does that sound?
Sounds better. How about a configurable stamp, CDBS-specific by default, and by default overridden in the automake.mk snippet to be config.status ? Kind regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAkpIgB8ACgkQn7DbMsAkQLh9oQCfcKnBvvJtw11kpxl0CW9k+jM0 e/IAoIKaisoVHeEm91cnjuXhf2+udvbg =AjXG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
