[Mesa-maintainers] make rules for generated files

[Emil Velikov]

On 17 December 2016 at 07:46, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:30:17PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
>> > I'm not sure if others encounter this, but a problem I run into with
>> > using the Mesa release tarballs is that if timestamps on files change
>>
>> First obvious question: why do the timestamps change?
>
> The process of importing Mesa into a larger cvs tree and checking it
> out again changes the timestamps.
>
IMHO the better, long term solution, is to convince CVS to preserve
the timestamps.
This will allow individual projects and/or OpenBSD to drop workarounds
like the one mentioned.

Not sure how easy the CVS road will be, if at all possible.
-Emil