GNU bug report logs - #9106
24.0.50; ./configure causes massive recompilation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:31:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 9106 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>, bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#9106: 24.0.50; ./configure causes massive recompilation
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
-- 
In memoriam Ludwig Beck <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Beck>
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