[m-rev.] diff: fix sub-module build problem

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Thu Nov 15 22:35:24 AEDT 2001


On 15-Nov-2001, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:53:53AM +1100, Simon Taylor wrote:
> > On 15-Nov-2001, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > On 15-Nov-2001, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > > > compiler/modules.m:
> > > >     Add the dependency <module>.date : <module>.date0
> > 
> > > Won't this cause the `.int0' file to be built even if there
> > > are no sub-modules?
> > 
> > Looking at the nightly test output, it definitely does.
> > 
> > > Please back out the change until you fix these problems.
> > 
> > Could you also remove the unnecessary `.int0' and `.date0' files
> > from the installation on the machines which started their nightly
> > test run after you committed that change. Those files will hang
> > around forever if you don't remove them.
> > 
> I assume you mean the ones in the installed directories.  I will do it
> in a couple of days when they will be more obvious from the timestamps
> which ones are older.

The timestamps on the `.int0' files don't get updated every night
(if they did, we'd have to recompile everything from scratch every day!).

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