On Tue Nov 27 16:48:41 2007, pmichaud wrote: > > If you rebuild and do 'make realclean' a second time, do you still > get the error? >
No, the error clears up. Good prescription, Dr Michaud! > [snip] > > IMO, while it's okay for Makefiles in languages/ and other tool > subdirectories to rebuild themselves, I don't think that the root > Makefile should ever do this. If something happens that causes > the root Makefile to be out of date, then we should assume that > _all_ configuration is out of date and require a full Configure.pl . > > So, I suggest removing the above Makefile target from root.in > entirely, or replace it with something that says "Makefile out > of date -- re-run Configure.pl". > As for the rest of the diagnosis, could you open up a [TODO] ticket for this? Thank you very much. kid51 P.S.: Am attending a Linux meetup in NYC where the topic is contributing to open source projects, and people were very impressed with the quick response to this RT.
