GNU bug report logs - #52322
`make --question info` always fails

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 00:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 52322 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 52322 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52322: `make --question info` always fails
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 11:42:24 -0500

ISTM that src/Makefile.in has a problem, in that it wants globals.h to
be newer than gl-stamp, but the rule that generates globals.h ensures
the opposite is always true. So it always tries to rebuild globals.h
(even if it is a no-op).

Working around that, one is left with the issue that compile-clean
always runs, and make can't tell that it can be a no-op.

Perhaps just get rid of the --question test.
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