Re: Increasing regularity of build systems

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

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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