Ed> I think this depends on the default behaviour of 'make' under Ed> those conditions. If you configure with --quick-build and Ed> then type 'make', does it do a full build? *chuckle* I don't use --quick-build, and I don't know what targets people who do are using. That's why I'm sluffing the detective work. There is no bug here, just an issue of consistency with common practice. I won't go so far as Emerson; consistency is a good thing. But I'm not willing to risk breaking what doesn't need fixing for the sake of consistency. Cf. the "Remove GNUish := from modules Makefiles" thread for the kind of thing that you can end up with. -- 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.

Jerry> That was a case where something was broken on one platform, Jerry> but the obvious fix broke things in a different way for Jerry> another platform, so we had to come up with a less obvious Jerry> fix that worked for all platforms. I don't understand why Jerry> you used it as an example here. Because obvious fixes do break things, that's all. -- 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.