[Build-common-hackers] Bug#534868: Bug#534868: use Makefile as stamp rather than config.status

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:15:26PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Saturday 27 June 2009 21:51:24 Robert Millan wrote:
> > The stamp file used for configure target is config.status, which is always
> > present with configure scripts generated by autoconf.  However, not all
> > configure scripts are generated by autoconf.
> >
> > A number of projects ship a script with similar semantics that will
> > generate Makefile but not config.status (qemu and mplayer are two notable
> > examples).
> >
> > I recommend that Makefile is used as stamp file instead.  This prevents
> > redundant configure runs on such packages.
> 
> But not all configure scripts generate a Makefile either.
> 
> A valid solution may be to provide a variable that allows specifying the stamp 
> file.  But the default has to stay config.status.

In that case, I think the best solution would be to generate a stamp in CDBS.
Then no matter what configure does, it will always work.  How does that sound?

-- 
Robert Millan

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