Re: [PATCH] Revised parallel build support.

Malcolm> Is remembering to type "make configure" any better than Malcolm> remembering to type "autoconf"? Stephen> No. The point is that the build should depend on Stephen> configure being up-to-date. Malcolm> I agree, however I don't think that 'all' should depend Malcolm> on 'configure' in the stable series. If it did then Malcolm> users would require autoconf, which I don't think is Malcolm> appropriate. They only need autoconf if the release is broken. If _we_ (== Vin and me, in particular) always do autoconf2.13; cvs commit configure before building a release, only users who touch configure.in will have a problem. And we _want_ such builds to fail! Or am I missing something? I agree the system needs testing before putting it into a stable tree, but AFAICT this is the right thing. The same reasoning is true of depends, but that's harder to get right. Malcolm> For 21.5 I think that it's reasonable until the that Malcolm> version turns stable. Care to draw up a patch? I'll do that shortly. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.