Timestamps in distribution tarballs are broken

Paul Smith psmith@gnu.org
Sun Oct 23 20:07:00 GMT 2011


On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 17:45 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> By default the binutils Makefiles do not have dependencies to rebuild
> configure from configure.ac, to avoid this sort of problem.  Did you
> configure with --enable-maintainer-mode?

Gah!  I did; I was reusing an old Makefile and I didn't realize that it
set --enable-maintainer-mode.  When I remove it things work.  Sorry for
the confusion.


(Although, in a perfect world the dist files would not have these issues
anyway :-)).

Cheers!

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