On Jan 26, 2001, "Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Why do automake stamp targets go through all the trouble of creating a
> temporary stamp file before executing config.status and then moving the
> stamp file into the correct position?

So that thirdfile.h gets a newer timestamp than stamp-h3.

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