Re: More on touch-fu (was Re: Re-libtooling + automake)

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Zak B. Elep [Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:24:14 +0800]:

> Hi Adeodato! :)

Hi!

> On 1/31/06, Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es> wrote:

> > Then, if you insist on using touch-fu (I myself prefer it), you should
> > investigate what the right order of the arguments to touch is. For
> > this, running `make -d` and seeing why things are getting regenerated
> > helps.

> Hmmm, I found out that `make -d` can be done _after_ the call to ./configure
> .  However, at reading the good doc at /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/ , it
> seems that the touch-fu has to be done _before_ the configure call (as the
> doc example shows touching ./configure itself.)  Is this correct, or is
> there some other way?
  
  You do this: invoke ./configure so that Makefile gets generated. Then,
  if you'd invoke `make`, you'd see how autotools get rerun. So, you run
  `make -d` instead, catch its output, and find out why they're being
  rerun. Then you put the appropriate touch statement in debian/rules,
  clean, and rebuilt. Rinse, repeat.

  Alternatively, you can look in the docs the interdependencies between
  autotools files, and touch them in the correct order.

  Cheers,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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