From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28924 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2011 12:14:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 28910 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Apr 2011 12:14:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:14:14 +0000 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34815) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDbj3-00083L-Gc for gcc-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:14:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDbj2-0007GC-Cb for gcc-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:14:13 -0400 Received: from qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.80]:52135) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDbj2-0007G5-AW for gcc-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:14:12 -0400 Received: from omta24.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.76]) by qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id b0Dx1g0041ei1Bg580EByK; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:14:11 +0000 Received: from up.mrs.kithrup.com ([24.4.193.8]) by omta24.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id b0EA1g00c0BKwT43k0EB0Q; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:14:11 +0000 Subject: Re: (build) Patch to fix cp/cfns.gperf building issues Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Mike Stump In-Reply-To: <1303558468.699813970@www2.webmail.us> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:58:00 -0000 Cc: "gcc-patches@gnu.org" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <18A11963-3600-43CC-9410-547C94EEB7F4@comcast.net> References: <1303485121.088925951@www2.webmail.us> <514AA7B6-0B41-42BD-B39B-71E9434E152D@comcast.net> <1303558468.699813970@www2.webmail.us> To: Nicola Pero X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 76.96.62.80 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-04/txt/msg01935.txt.bz2 On Apr 23, 2011, at 4:34 AM, Nicola Pero wrote: > What is the reason to keep the rule without the dependency ? Is it so th= at even with --disable-maintainer-mode you can force the file to be recreat= ed by manually deleting it ? Yes. Think of it as a really cheap maintainer mode. Another way to look a= t it, would be consistency with the existing style. I think the patch is ready for a build person to review it. :-)