Re: Increasing regularity of build systems
Jonathan Walther wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> > These builds need something like:
> >
> > if [ ! -f stamp-configure ]; then \
> > ./configure ; \
> > touch stamp-configure; \
> > fi
>
> What you want is:
>
> if [ \! -f config.status ]; then ./configure; fi
test -f $<config.status-or-whatever> || ./configure
would be the nicer one-liner
Regards,
Joey
PS: I would appreciate its use as well, it sucks that some pkg's are
rebuilding everything if one only is working on a patch in to one
file
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