* Paul Eggert wrote on Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:24:21PM CEST: > Stepping back for a minute: a minor change like a version-number bump > should not force the system to recompile everything in sight.
Maybe there should be a way that it also should not cause an autotools rerun? > Sorry if I'm asking questions you've already answered before, but I'd > rather have "make install" be read-only in the working directory. > That's a longstanding tradition I'm loath to overturn. This is a necessity in some situations (albeit those are likely to start with a tarball), say, when installing as a different user than compiling (and neither of both strictly more privileged than the other). Cheers, Ralf
