Re: [Quilt-dev] Permanent target in Makefile

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Andreas,

> > This is causing noise on each build, and causing doc/quilt.1 to be
> > regenerated if any compatibility program is used, wasting time. The
> > rule triggers on "make install" too, causing targets to be
> > potentially built by root, which we probably don't want to happen.
> > How can we fix this? Can't we simply run that chmod at the moment
> > we build each binary?
> 
> We can do this instead. It's not pretty, but hey...
> 
> +       @for program in $+; do \
> +           test -x $$program || chmod +x $$program; \
> +       done

I still don't get why we want this to be run on each make invocation
rather than right after generating these compatibility programs?

This change doesn't even stop the repeated generation of doc/quilt.1,
although I can't seem to figure out why.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare