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Summary: autoheader creates config.h.in file with wrong
timestamp
Project: Autoconf
Submitted by: haible
Submitted on: Sun 29 Oct 2017 04:45:21 PM CET
Category: None
Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 3 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Operating System: GNU/Linux
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Details:
autoheader creates the config.h.in file with a timestamp that is not the
current time, but the latest full second before the current time. This causes
trouble later with the Automake-generated rule that tests whether config.h.in
needs to be rebuilt.
How to reproduce:
- Use gnulib as of 2017-09-28.
- $ ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=testdir1 --single-configure
get-rusage-as get-rusage-data
(or any other small set of modules)
This command prints what it does:
executing aclocal -I glm4
executing autoconf
executing autoheader
executing automake --add-missing --copy
As you can see, it generates aclocal.m4, configure, config.h.in, Makefile.in
in this order.
- $ cd testdir1
- $ ls -lrt --full-time
total 408
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 150 2017-10-29 16:03:57.054242537 +0100
Makefile.am
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 6695 2017-10-29 16:03:57.574244759 +0100
configure.ac
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 23189 2017-10-29 16:03:58.000000000 +0100
config.h.in
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 42980 2017-10-29 16:03:58.182247356 +0100
aclocal.m4
-rwxrwxr-x 1 bruno bruno 279904 2017-10-29 16:03:58.734249714 +0100 configure
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 36669 2017-10-29 16:03:59.674253730 +0100
Makefile.in
drwxrwxr-x 2 bruno bruno 4096 2017-10-29 16:03:59.754254071 +0100 gllib
drwxrwxr-x 2 bruno bruno 4096 2017-10-29 16:03:59.798254260 +0100 glm4
drwxrwxr-x 2 bruno bruno 4096 2017-10-29 16:03:59.862254533 +0100 build-aux
drwxrwxr-x 2 bruno bruno 4096 2017-10-29 16:03:59.898254687 +0100 gltests
As you can see, config.h.in is now OLDER than aclocal.m4 and configure.
- $ ./configure
- $ make
Here the Automake generate rule kicks in:
$(srcdir)/config.h.in: $(am__configure_deps)
($(am__cd) $(top_srcdir) && $(AUTOHEADER))
rm -f stamp-h1
touch $@
This rule compares the timestamps of config.h.in and aclocal.m4 (in
particular), finds that config.h.in is too old, thus regenerates it:
$ make
(CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash
/media/develdata/devel/GNULIB/gnulib-git/testdir1/build-aux/missing
autoheader)
rm -f stamp-h1
touch config.h.in
cd . && /bin/bash ./config.status config.h
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
...
The effect is:
* Useless commands get executed.
* Noise gets added to the "make" output.
* The junk directory autom4te.cache, that I took care to remove before, has
now been recreated. Arghh!
Versions of software implied:
- autoheader 2.69
- perl 5.22.1
- all on Ubuntu 16.04
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