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Re: PATCH: Avoid `touch' in Makefiles
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Avoid `touch' in Makefiles
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:53:49 +0100 (BST)
- cc: <mark at codesourcery dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Sun, 13 May 2001, DJ Delorie wrote:
> These three *must* be touch. The whole point here is that if you
> check out the generated files and they're out of date but you *don't*
> have the tools to rebuild them, the build will at least update the
> timestamp of the generated files to make the build happy.
Because dependencies are only on $(GENERATED_MANPAGES), which is
@GENERATED_MANPAGES@, not directly on generated-manpages or the manpages
themselves, the dependency *shouldn't* arise unless the tools are
available (since 2001-01-15, when I removed an explicit dependency on
gcc.1).
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk