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

From: Bruno Haible <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:27:26 +0200

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Like you, I'm leery of time stamp files; too often
> their costs outweigh their benefits.

What are, concretely, the problems you are fearing, or that you remember
from the past? In other words, which are the tests that we should perform
before committing a change that makes use of stamp files?

Bruno
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