Package: autoconf Version: 2.61-4 Severity: normal I've built a MPFR tarball on this Debian machine and transfered it to my Zaurus (a PDA under Linux), which has a SD card with a vfat file system. Doing "make check" on the Zaurus rebuilds files several times: "make check" builds the test files twice, run the tests, then rebuilds MPFR entirely (so that I can't see the test results, in particular).
I think I've found the problem. The config.log says: configure:8965: checking whether ln -s works configure:8972: result: no, using cp -p I wonder why "-p" is used, as on vfat, the mtime cannot be preserved. If the Makefile assumes that "cp -p" preserves mtime, then it is no longer surprising that I get many file rebuilds. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages autoconf depends on: ii debianutils 2.22 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii m4 1.4.9-2 a macro processing language ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages autoconf recommends: ii automake1.6 [automaken] 1.6.3-12 A tool for generating GNU Standard ii automake1.7 [automaken] 1.7.9-9 A tool for generating GNU Standard ii automake1.8 [automaken] 1.8.5+nogfdl-2 A tool for generating GNU Standard ii automake1.9 [automaken] 1.9.6+nogfdl-3 A tool for generating GNU Standard -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
