version.h rebuild change in stable

2019-05-31 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
TLDR: I'm about to remove the version.h automatic rebuilding from stable. Going forward, updating the version will require a 'make clean' or 'rm version.h'. Ticket #144 revealed an issue on OpenBSD (and therefore possibly other *BSD's). The behavior of their make is different from GNU make

Re: version.h rebuild change in stable

2019-05-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-05-31 09:37:02 -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > Of course, if anyone has an idea how to do this in a way that works > portably, we can revisit. But for now I consider their build issues more > important than the minor convenience for developers. How about using AM_CONDITIONAL in

Re: version.h rebuild change in stable

2019-05-31 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:19:27PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2019-05-31 09:37:02 -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: Of course, if anyone has an idea how to do this in a way that works portably, we can revisit. But for now I consider their build issues more important than the minor