Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I think the fixed Makefile code would remain unpleasantly fragile,
>> and the witness-path computation is best moved to the
>> configure stage.
> I've never understood the need for having the last-repository-change
> date affect the build, and would favor removing all the
> vcswitness stuff.

Simple:
- "make autoloads" causes an undesirable re-dump even when no autoload changed.
- for that reason "autoloads" is not in the dependencies and is not
  always run.

So the vcswitness is a completely opportunistic hack which forces
a "make autoloads" every once in a while.


        Stefan