Subject: bug#9106: 24.0.50; ./configure causes massive recompilation

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:23:32 -0700

On 07/20/11 01:48, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> You need a separate stamp file to avoid this.
> Or use move-if-change with config.status.

That might be better, but it'd need a separate timestamp file, no?
Otherwise, config.status would appear out-of-date to the
top-level rule that runs 'configure', and that would cause 'make'
to run 'configure' every time.