On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 11:23:48PM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
> I found this problem during windows CI:
> 
> When you clone from a git repo, configure.ac can be newer
> than configure, thus "make" will try to run "autoconf"
> to update it.
> 
> I found this not very nice.
> 
> I found 2 ways to improve this:
> 
> 1. manually "touch configure" before everything.
> 2. use "AM_MAINTAINER_MODE".
> 
> What's your opinion?

Could you say more about the problem?  Our build machinery
requires explicit run of 'build_setup.sh' to update
'configure'.  And the reason is exactly to avoid problems
like above.  So, why 'autoconf' runs?

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