> > What I'd like is AC_CONFIG_FILES to also perform a difference > > check on the output files before overwriting them, just the way > > AC_CONFIG_HEADERS does. (Is this a safe and easy request to accommodate?) > > Maybe you can have an intermediate file created from config.status > (AC_CONFIG_FILES), and then use move-if-change to the header, in > conjunction with a stamp file. I'm not sure whether there are make > implementations that don't cope well with this scheme, nor whether > that is due to bugs in them. Hi, I tried my own AC_CONFIG_FILES like this: AC_CONFIG_FILES([foo.h:foo.h.in], [ dnl ... create foo.h.tmp from foo.h.in dnl ... move-if-change foo.h.tmp foo.h ] ) However, the configure process would always *first* clobber foo.h from foo.h.in before executing any of my own commands, thus rendering the move-if-change useless (always finds never changed). Is this what you meant? Admittedly, I'm sure how to use a stamp-file in this case (I've only hacked my own stamp schemes for completely different situations in Makefiles). David Fang _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
