Re: git and mtime

[Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:07:46PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 
> > They are optional build depdendencies.  They are provided pre-built, and 
> > won't be rebuilt unless they get outdated.  In the release tarball, the 
> > timestamps are correct, ensuring this never happens. When checking out 
> > with git, the timestamps are incorrect, and it attempts to rebuild 
> > something that's *already built*.
> 
> I'll try just one more time.  Why don't you teach your build process to 
> check if the generated files can be generated, and if not, fall back to 
> the committed ones?

Well, it's definitely not a good idea to try rebuilding when the tools
aren't available, and I'll update the Makefiles to only attempt a
rebuild when this is the case.  So yes, making the build a bit more
intelligent is definitely something to do.  However, this is really
a separate issue, since the repo dates back eight years, and I don't
want to break older stuff.  This will only fix things for the future.


Regards,
Roger

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