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authorAlbert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org>2000-02-19 02:39:46 (GMT)
committerAlbert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org>2000-02-19 02:39:46 (GMT)
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[svn-r1979] Purpose:
Feature "improvement". Problem: The Makefile target triggers gmake to redo the whole auto-configure process if it sees any autoconfigure related files changed. It causes couple problems. One is that when multiple machines using --srcdir are running make, they may detect the changes and launch the autoconf at the same time. These end up as multiple hosts updating the same srcdir area together--bad things can happen. Another one is that when one modifies some Makefile.in, then try "make distclean" before launching the configure process. Instead of cleaning things, it started a configure, recreate all Makefiles and other files, then finally come around to do the distclean--who knows what it cleans by now since the Makefile is changed too. Last problem was that this auto-process will launch even for command "gmake -n ...". Solution: Renamed Makefile target to reconfigure so that the auto-checking is still available but must be launched explicitedly. If one wishes to have the auto-checking as default, one may do alias gmake "\gmake -i reconfigure; gmake \!* ".
Diffstat (limited to 'config')
-rw-r--r--config/commence.in4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/config/commence.in b/config/commence.in
index 23b2284..3a43cb8 100644
--- a/config/commence.in
+++ b/config/commence.in
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ all:
## keep track of the most recent update of H5config.h.in and H5config.h
## because autoheader and config.status don't update the modification time
## if the contents don't change.
+## Invoke it by "gmake reconfigure".
##
## Graphically, the dependencies are:
##
@@ -132,7 +133,8 @@ $(top_srcdir)/configure: $(top_srcdir)/configure.in
$(top_builddir)/config.status: $(top_srcdir)/configure $(STAMP1)
-cd $(top_builddir); ./config.status --recheck
-Makefile: $(MAKEFILE_PARTS) $(STAMP2)
+# rerun the autoconf process if any configure components have changed.
+reconfigure: $(MAKEFILE_PARTS) $(STAMP2)
-cd $(top_builddir); CONFIG_HEADERS= ./config.status
##-----------------------------------------------------------------------------