On 16/05/11 20:47, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Pádraig, > > * Pádraig Brady wrote on Mon, May 16, 2011 at 04:44:42PM CEST: >> On 14/05/11 09:07, Paul Eggert wrote: >>>> If something treats symlink mtime as significant, >>>> then I suspect that it's at fault. >>> >>> Yes, there's something busted there. GNU 'make' does the right thing: >>> it follows symlinks when checking time stamps. Is some other 'make' >>> is being used, or perhaps some tool other than 'make'? >> >> I suspect something else in the depths of auto* is busted, >> as I'm using standard make. > > GNU make, I presume. > > Is this issue still open? And if yes, how can it be reproduced? > (Sorry, I haven't been following the thread really, but I still > can't let a non-bug-report without details go uncommented. ;-)
Sorry I have no time to dig into this currently. I know I'd lose half a hour (it's on my ever increasing todo list). Anyway fa6f0000 from gnulib broke my coreutils build dir, because @HAVE_SIGHANDLER_T@ was not replaced. I've noticed before that if I remove the symlinks from the m4 directory and rerun bootstrap, then things start working. cheers, Pádraig.
