Re: git and mtime

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also sprach Roger Leigh <rleigh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2008.11.19.1237 +0100]:
> These are provided by upstream so that end users don't need these tools
> installed (particularly docbook, since the toolchain is so flaky on
> different systems).  However, the fact that git isn't storing the
> mtime of the files confuses make, so it then tries to regenerate these
> (already up-to-date) files, and fails in the process since the tools
> aren't available.

I don't get it. Why are end users running make in the first place?
Why aren't those in the build-dependencies?

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