Re: autoreconf --install --force broke on files with no timestamps

Zack Weinberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
Message-ID <CAKCAbMgYX+6pzoppeJQP_GyMMqUxmy4fFqdGxf8FT8ACMZhDXg@mail.gmail.com> 
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 7:09 AM Pascal Terjan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit;h=40fa9edce6ad1a05988e4743a7ca64c3a8b3208d
> broke many things as it is no longer possible to use autoreconf
> --force --install to replace a file with no timestamp.
>
> A lot of install-sh files do not have one.

Fixed in c3afa488831e37137f3319f24456bb2cf7953acf.  Thanks for
catching this, it would have been an embarrassing bug to have in
2.70-final.

zw
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