Re: [patches] autoconf-it and timestamps

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Peter Seebach wrote:

> My thoughts are roughly that the autoconf-it rule probably shouldn't be
> modifying the source tree if you're building in another directory -- that just
> seems dangerous.  For our immediate purposes, we're just unilaterally touching
> */configure, but that's... uhm.  Not good.

Touching the configure scripts and any other checked in generated files is 
what I'd consider the right approach; you want the makefiles to know the 
right commands for regeneration if you did modify configure.in, without 
needing to configure in the source directory.

Perhaps we should add a script like GCC's contrib/gcc_update to handle 
touching generated files.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx