Comment 13 for bug 13458

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 17:29:04 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?b?Suly9G1l?= Marant <email address hidden>
To: Rob Browning <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, Kurt Roeckx <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#297796: emacs21: FTBFS: timestamp skew issues.

Quoting Rob Browning <email address hidden>:

> > Rob, do you have any idea about how to fix this?
>
> The only thing I've thought of so far is to change debian/rules to not
> rely on timestamps for this file. Instead keep a file of the md5sums
> of the *.dpatch files and use that and cmp to determine when to
> re-generate. i.e. (in psudeo-make code):
>
> define update_autofiles_diff_if_needed
> md5sum debian/*.dpatch > debian/tmp-dpatch.md5
> if ! cmp debian/dpatch.md5 debian/tmp-dpatch.md5; \
> then \
> $(update_debian_autofiles_diff); \
> md5sum debian/*.dpatch > debian/dpatch.md5; \
> fi
> endef
>
> Then I'd just have to arrange for this action to be taken at all the
> appropriate times. A bit ugly perhaps, but it looks like it might
> work.

To my mind, we should avoid to do this automatically from the makefile
and generate a dpatch manually every we have to regenerate the
configure script.

Currently, the only file which is modified when changing configure.in
is configure, so this should be straightforward.

Cheers,

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J=E9r=F4me Marant