Re: Spurious rebuilds

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "craig" == craig howard <address@hidden> writes:

 craig> I'm having trouble with spurious rebuilds caused by
 craig> autoconf/automake projects.  This problem is _not_
 craig> happening with handmade makefiles.  What's happening is
 craig> that everytime I execute make, the entire project is
 craig> rebuilt, regardless of whether or not each file needs to
 craig> be.

 craig> I was able to duplicate the problem with a skeleton project of the
 craig> following

This works fine for me (using autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7.4,
but that shouldn't matter).

 craig> Is there something simple that I've misconfigured?  I
 craig> doubt it's a problem with the configure.in or
 craig> Makefile.am files, as I have the same issue with KDE
 craig> CVS.

A wild guess: are you compiling these things in an NFS mounted
directory?  Weird timestamp issues are often caused by NFS
clients which aren't date-synchronized with NFS servers.

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz