Re: CVS checkout may not rerun autotools

[Noah Misch]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:51:56PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>       * config/Makefile.am: Add comment to force updated Makefile.in.

> --- config/Makefile.am        5 Apr 2006 20:55:14 -0000       1.8
> +++ config/Makefile.am        10 Apr 2006 20:51:14 -0000
> @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
>  ## Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
>  ## 02110-1301, USA.
>  
> +# This line added to force a rebuild of Makefile.in.

Ouch!  The tail just wagged the dog quite handily.

There's little harm in having Makefile.in older than Makefile.am if the updated
Makefile.in would not change.  The build process papers over this automatically
with no loss of correctness, and no additional requirements of the installed
software on a CVS user's system.