From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41155 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0v3s-0008FH-Qn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:43:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0v3n-0006eh-Nv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:43:00 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f173.google.com ([209.85.161.173]:42990) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0v3n-0006eb-Ll for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:42:55 -0400 Received: by gxk22 with SMTP id 22so308192gxk.4 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <4CA3263B.2060209@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:42:51 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] trace: avoid unnecessary recompilation if nothing changed List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: Blue Swirl , qemu-devel On 09/28/2010 10:58 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > That was from memory. And my example makefile to illustrate the problem > was flawed. So your patch might work reliably after all. The common > make voodoo incantation for this is a stamp file, though, as Paolo > pointed out. FWIW, Autoconf manual says that the stamp file is needed for low-resolution (1s or, for FAT, 2s) filesystems or something like that. Paolo