Re: Fix rebuilding rules of ltmain

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf,

On 27 Apr 2007, at 00:01, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> OK to apply?  With this, if only `ChangeLog' (and `configure.ac' for
> ltversion.in) are newer than the respective target, we avoid updating.
> This fixes the bug where
>   touch $srcdir/libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh  # or edit otherwise
>
> would fail to update ltmain.sh and thus libtool.
>
> This seems to more or less work with the make implementations of  
> Solaris
> 10, AIX 4.3.3, FreeBSD 6, and of course GNU.  More or less meaning:  
> the
> proprietary make implementations will keep rerunning autotools and
> config.status for a while, but eventually they will settle on  
> something.

Are we actually any better off than we were before I removed stamp-vcl?
If this puts us back where we were to start with, then it would be  
better
to revert the stamp-vcl removal patch if we can't find a better way  
to have
changes to ltmain.sh picked up by make...

> 2007-04-27  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
>
>         * Makefile.am (clean-ltmain-sh): Removed.
>         (libtool, $(srcdir)/$(m4dir)/ltversion.m4)
>         ($(srcdir)/$(auxdir)/ltmain.sh): Updated to not depend on any
>         phony rules.  Test `$?' for prerequisites that should always
>         cause us to update the target.  Fixes rebuilding rules, at the
>         cost of sometimes updating too much with non-GNU make.

Cheers,
        Gary
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