[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] silence "Please run ./configure again" if config.h wasn't changed

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:00:22AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:21:21AM +0200, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > 
> > Attached patch should silence the "Please run ./configure again warning"
> > from make after configure didn't change config.h.
> > 
> > --- Makefile	(Revision 24250)
> > +++ Makefile	(Arbeitskopie)
> > @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
> >  
> >  # ./configure must be rerun if it changed
> > -config.h: configure
> > +config.mak: configure
> >  	@echo "############################################################"
> >  	@echo "####### Please run ./configure again - it's changed! #######"
> >  	@echo "############################################################"
> 
> What's the point of this?  If configure changed, config.h might have
> changed as well.  AFAICT this is correct.  Do you wish to make
> config.mak depend on configure as well?  This I could understand.

No, the problem is that if configure changed, but config.h didn't, there
is no way to get rid of this message except distclean (or deleting it).
Probably configure should always touch config.h

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger