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Re: Timestamps in distribution tarballs are broken

From: Paul Smith <psmith at gnu dot org>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:06:39 -0400
Subject: Re: Timestamps in distribution tarballs are broken
References: <1319327096.6017.225.camel@homebase> <mcrk47wk01l.fsf@dhcp-172-18-216-180.mtv.corp.google.com>
Reply-to: psmith at gnu dot org

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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References:
- Timestamps in distribution tarballs are broken
  - From: Paul Smith
- Re: Timestamps in distribution tarballs are broken
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor

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