Re: CVS checkout may not rerun autotools

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Noah,

* Noah Misch wrote on Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:18:16PM CEST:
>
> There's little harm in having Makefile.in older than Makefile.am if
> the updated Makefile.in would not change.

True if you are a developer and have the right Autoconf and Automake
versions installed; wrong if you are an innocent user that just found
a buglet and, for the first time, adventures for a fix, and doesn't
have those versions readily installed.  Yes, if no matching automake
is found, then there'll only be warnings, no hard failure, but still
inconvenient.

> 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.

If it disturbs Paul, I'd guess it could disturb others as well.
I could undo that change, the effect would still be the intended
one: have Makefile.in's with updated time stamps checked in.  :)

Cheers,
Ralf