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>>>>> "Rupert" == Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at gmail.com> writes:

    Rupert> Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
    Rupert> automake; ./configure --with-something; make
    >> 
    >> I get message from automake about src/sharefiles.mk not existing.  but
    >> that seems ok.
    >> 
    >> Also, you removed the <lisp>-depends.mk files. Won't that mean that if
    >> I modify a lisp file, make won't rebuild maxima?

    Rupert> They should get automatically regenerated when Maxima gets built, I
    Rupert> think. When I test by deleting the one that got built, it reappears next
    Rupert> time make is run. They have a make dependency on maxima.system, so I
    Rupert> think they should even get regenerated at the right time. Does this not
    Rupert> work for you?

    >> And, in fact, if I delete src/binary-cmucl, make no longer even tries
    >> to build the cmucl version.

    Rupert> That's worrying. For some reason, the debian cmucl package doesn't work
    Rupert> on my system, so I can't easily test this directly. But looking again at

It's not just cmucl.  If I delete binary-clisp, make doesn't rebuild
anything for clisp either.

Ray