[Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Biot Olivier wrote:
> Comment out the line with the .PHONY rule in Makefile.am. We'll need another
> means of building the cvsversion.h target (also because the autotools
> already define a .PHONY target, as can be seen in Makefile.in).

Any target with no dependencies is supposed to be remade *every* time, 
so a rule like (I haven't updated my CVS so haven't seen the code):

cvsversion.h:
	make-version.pl

should be enough. What can help stop infinite makes is to not write 
cvsversion.h immediately, but write a temporary file, diff it with 
cvsversion.h and either move the temp file to cvsversion.h or delete it 
if there was no change.

Andy
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