Stefan Hajnoczi writes:
> The Makefile uses intermediate timestamp files to avoid rebuilding if
> tracetool output is unchanged.
> Timestamps are implemented incorrectly. This was fixed for rules.mak in
> commit 4b25966ab976f3a7fd9008193b2defcc82f8f04d ("rules.mak: cleanup
> config generation rules") but never fixed in trace/Makefile.objs.
> The problem with the old timestamp implementation was that make doesn't
> notice the updated file modification time until the next time it is run.
> It was necessary to run make twice in a row to achieve a full rebuild.
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>
Fixes broken code and it's cleaner. Thanks!
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