Re: question about autotools within GNU make itself

On Jan 16 2018, Paul Smith wrote: > The automake generated makefiles know how to rebuild Makefile.in, > Makefile, configure, etc. based on the out-of-date-ness of the base > files such as configure.ac and Makefile.am. So if those files are > updated, then the makefile will

Re: question about autotools within GNU make itself

On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 09:13 -0800, David Boyce wrote: > It looks like the touching not only destroys incremental build > capability (expected and not an issue) but toggles the makefile into > "developer mode". > > I'm not looking for any changes here, just wondering whether anyone > knows which

question about autotools within GNU make itself

This isn't a bug in GNU make at all, just a question about how it interacts with its own use of automake which is something I have little experience of. First, a little background. I'm working in a corporate Linux environment in which there are a few tasks that don't work well in NFS so I've moved