Re: Fix rebuilding rules of ltmain

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf!

On 28 Apr 2007, at 09:04, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:46:23PM CEST:
> > On 27 Apr 2007, at 00:01, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > OK to apply?[...]
>
> > > 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?
>
> I don't know.  Before you removed stamp-vcl, building would not work
> without GNU make at all.

True...

> > 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...
>
> Feel free to work on this.  My allocated time for this particular  
> issue
> is about expired; I can post updates to README* though, depending  
> on the
> outcome of this.
>
> Repeating the above question: OK to apply?  If not, then ok to revert
> the 2007-03-29, 2007-03-26 changes?

Certainly.  In light of our new found ability to build without GNU  
make, then
applying seems better by far.  Please go ahead.

> > >         * 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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