Hold off on the .deps cleanup for now

bk: 4abfbdaeQmOu9mPtj5HM1VjJIlyWyA

diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index d3433930589f64738a23aa0f0b7862b72b7998c4..1acabd4c6734e7626ba564ff1165bbb4df117f9e 100755 (executable)
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -110,12 +110,22 @@ done
 
 touch ntpd/ntp_parser.[ch]
 
-# remove .deps directories to handle source files
-# moved, added, or removed.  config.status will
+## HMS: Danger, Will Robinson.
+# If we remove files that used to be there, the old .Po files will bite us.
+# If we remove the .deps file, we *must* run config.status to generate new
+# dummy .Po files.  The problem with this is that we then lose the
+# dependency chain and for an exisint build tree that means we may not
+# rebuild things that need to be rebuilt.
+#
 # regenerate dummy .Po files, which are included
 # in Makefiles
 
-find . -name .deps | xargs rm -rf
+#for i in `find . -name '*.Po' | grep /.deps/`
+#do
+#    echo '# dummy' > $i
+#done
+
+##
 
 cp bincheck.mf sntp/