Re: [PATCH] {master} missing: do not touch timestamps; only warn for out-of-date files

[Dave Hart]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Dave Hart <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I had no idea missing would monkey with timestamps like that.  I'm
> wholeheartedly in favor of removing that capability in the name of
> predictably correct results.
>
> While I agree fix-timestamps.sh might be a clearer name, using the
> name bootstrap for the clone-from-VCS before-first-configure step.
> NTP tarballs carry a "bootstrap" script, though it is not needed nor
> recommended when building from a tarball without changing sources.
> Naming it fix-timestamps.sh would be misleading, as it also invokes
> {$AUTORECONF-autoreconf} -v -i.  I suspect that nomenclature of
> bootstrap being the step after clone and before autotools or make.

Sorry, incomplete sentence.  I meant to say I suspect that
nomenclature is more common than you seem to recognize.

> The other naming I've seen for such scripts is even less appealing,
> autoconf.sh.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave Hart