From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:07:46 GMT
Subject: Re: git and mtime
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811201506390.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081120133546.GA6023@codelibre.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Roger Leigh wrote:

> They are optional build depdendencies.  They are provided pre-built, and 
> won't be rebuilt unless they get outdated.  In the release tarball, the 
> timestamps are correct, ensuring this never happens. When checking out 
> with git, the timestamps are incorrect, and it attempts to rebuild 
> something that's *already built*.

I'll try just one more time.  Why don't you teach your build process to 
check if the generated files can be generated, and if not, fall back to 
the committed ones?

Ciao,
Dscho