Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Running configure always touches xtables/xtables-version.h, which > causes parts to rebuild even when the configuration has not changed. > (`./configure; make; ./configure; make;`). > > This can be avoided if the AC_CONFIG_FILES mechanism is replaced by > one that does a compare and leaves an existing xtables-version.h > unmodified if the sed result stays the same when it re-runs. I had to yank this one again, it breaks build after running git-clean, "no rule to make xtables-version.h".