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Re: Why does "make distclean" rerun autoconf?


From: Alexandre Oliva
Subject: Re: Why does "make distclean" rerun autoconf?
Date: 06 Mar 2001 05:05:30 -0300
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On Mar  5, 2001, Tom Tromey <address@hidden> wrote:

> We use a rule that rebuilds Makefile if Makefile.in has changed.  GNU
> make will try to build `Makefile', if such a target exists, before
> running any other target, including `distclean'.

Maybe we could convince the maintainer(s?) of GNU make to introduce an
extension: some way to mark certain targets as not requiring a
Makefile update.

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