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. bash autogen.sh ./configure make build ends with: Making all in include make[2]: Entering directory '/home/fw/git/netfilter.org/iptables/include' make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'xtables-version.h', needed by 'all-am'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/fw/git/netfilter.org/iptables/include' make[1]: *** [Makefile:501: all-recursive] Error 1
