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

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:59:21 -0700

On 07/21/11 03:57, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Is that the kind of rule you would recommend?

Yes, something like that might work, for config.status in Emacs.
But I'd rather not debug this sort of thing myself.
Like you, I'm leery of time stamp files; too often
their costs outweigh their benefits.