Prevent rebuilding due to replacement of generated files #119
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Upon build, the content from src/ is symlinked into the build directory. If the build system replaces one of those symlinks with a generated (regular) file, goa will restore the symlink on the next build. For autoconf projects, this likely breaks the configure step. Fixes #119
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goa build, Goa symlinks the directory content of src/ into the build directory. In situations where the imported src/ contains files that will also be modified during the build process, this will always trigger a rebuild (at best).When porting the autoconf-based curl, I encountered the situation that
./configurereplaced the Makefile. A secondgoa build, however, restored the original version. Since./configurewill be skipped if config.status already exists, the secondgoa buildused the wrong Makefile and always failed.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: