Re: What is it with the dependency on config.status

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sunday 2012-01-01 10:24, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>On 12/31/2011 12:29 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> 
>> I have seen user-induced lines in Makefile.am like these in a handful 
>> of packages:
>>
>Which packages?  I need more information if I am to attempt an informed
>guess ...
>
>>      ${pkgconfig_DATA}: ${top_builddir}/config.status
>> 
>> Given that automake 1.11.1/autoconf 2.68 seem to automatically recreate 
>> files specified in AC_CONFIG_FILES when configure.ac is changed, what is 
>> the actual purpose/significance of this line?
>> 
>The best way to know would probably be asking the person(s) that have
>written such a line :-)

For example libntlm [http://www.nongnu.org/libntlm/releases/] in 
gl/Makefile.am:

        else
        byteswap.h: $(top_builddir)/config.status
                rm -f $@
        endif