Patrick Welche writes: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 07:47:36AM +0000, Harlan Stenn wrote: > > But apparently something strange is going on, because after we run the > > bootstrap script, if we run "make" we see: > > > > ... > > Prerequisite `../version.m4' is newer than target `../config.h.in'. > > Prerequisite `../aclocal.m4' is newer than target`../config.h.in'. > > Must remake target `../config.h.in'. > > ... > > > > And this makes no sense to me because: > > > > - version.m4 is updated *first* in the bootstrap script > > - autoreconf (which updates aclocal) is done after that > > > > so obviously I'm missing something. > > > > I'm continuing to dig into this, and if anybody has any ideas I'd love > > to hear them. > > Only - what do the timestamps on version.m4 and config.h.in look like? > Is the bootstrap script too fast? (Clutching at straws) The version.m4 file gets updated first, then 3 sets of "touches" happen with a 1 second sleep between them. After that I run autoreconf. Using the actual filenames now, after a repo update but before running the "bootstrap" script: harlan@hms-mbp11% ls -l config.h.in aclocal.m4 sntp/m4/version.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan staff 41166 Feb 4 21:40 aclocal.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 41299 Jan 28 02:07 config.h.in -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 40 Feb 21 23:20 sntp/m4/version.m4 harlan@hms-mbp11% ./bootstrap ... harlan@hms-mbp11% ls -lT config.h.in aclocal.m4 sntp/m4/version.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan staff 41166 Feb 23 15:10:10 2014 aclocal.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 41378 Feb 23 15:10:30 2014 config.h.in -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 40 Feb 23 15:10:03 2014 sntp/m4/version.m4 harlan@hms-mbp11% ... and *this* time it didn't rebuild the top-level config.in.h . I'm about to roll another release; I'll try again after that's done and include the 2nd instance of config.h.in in the list (we have a nested project, too). H _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
