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Re: [PATCH] auto-detect changed $prefix in Makefile and properly rebuild to avoid broken install

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Jun 18, 2006, 13:31 UTC
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<20060618133138.GO2609@pasky.or.cz>
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Dear diary, on Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:04:43PM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

>  - we may want to make the state file a bit more visible (IOW, I
>    somewhat do mind the name being dot-git-dot-prefix).

What is the point? It is just a bit of internal build system state made persistent and shouldn't be interesting for the user, so why give it extra publicity in the tree?

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  1. auto-detect changed $prefix in Makefile and properly rebuild to avoid broken installYakov Lerner, Jun 14, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 14, 2006
  3. Yakov LernerJun 14, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 14, 2006
  5. Yakov LernerJun 14, 2006
  6. Matthias LederhoferJun 15, 2006
  7. Yakov LernerJun 15, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisJun 18, 2006
  9. SantiJun 15, 2006
  10. Yakov LernerJun 15, 2006
  11. SantiJun 15, 2006
  12. Alexander LitvinovJun 15, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 17, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 17, 2006
  15. Karl HasselströmJun 18, 2006
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 18, 2006
  17. Karl HasselströmJun 18, 2006

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