RFR: JDK-8196356: Changes to m4 files don't trigger autoconf execution at build time

[Thomas Stüfe]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 9:12 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
wrote:

> On 08/02/2018 17:49, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>
>> The check for when to generate the generated configure script is not
>> working quite as expected. It currently only compares timestamps if the
>> local repository has any local changes in the make/autoconf directory. This
>> used to make sense when we had a committed generated script, but now we
>> actually do need to regenerate any time an input file is newer than the
>> generated script.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8196356
>>
> In addition to `hg status` showing no changes, I think it will continue to
> confuse people to generate it into a hidden directory. Was there any
> consideration to generating into a regular directory?
>
>
I agree. Also, we still generate the configure.sh into the source tree even
if the output directory is somewhere else. I always keep my output
directories separate from the source tree. Sometimes my source directory is
even on a read-only share. I would prefer and also expect any temporary
files to be placed in the output directory resp. the current directory, not
in the source tree. Would that be possible?

Thanks and Kind Regards, Thomas


> -Alan
>