Re: The annoyance of repeating Makefiles

From: Gary Mills (no email)
Date: Sat Feb 10 2007 - 14:13:14 EST

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    On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:50:32AM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
    > Gary Mills wrote:
    >
    > >This behavior is annoying because I build the Cyrus software on a
    > >development server but then install it on other servers where there
    > >is no compiler and the source tree is mounted read-only. This breaks
    > >`make install', which should only install things, not recompile them.
    > >Can this be fixed, or am I condemned to hack Makefiles myself?
    >
    > A 'make install' shouldn't compile anything if all of the generated
    > files already exist. I would consider this a bug and would gladly
    > accept a patch which fixes this behavior.

    I've attached a patch, against cyrus-imapd-2.3.8, that does just that.

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    -Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
    
    
    

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