another reason to run makesrna needlessly every build is that the makesrna binary is newer then the generated files.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/makesrna/intern/makesrna.c b/source/blender/makesrna/intern/makesrna.c
index f4479885676..145f04d644b 100644
--- a/source/blender/makesrna/intern/makesrna.c
+++ b/source/blender/makesrna/intern/makesrna.c
@@ -53,12 +53,14 @@
 static int file_older(const char *file1, const char *file2)
 {
 	struct stat st1, st2;
+	// printf("compare: %s %s\n", file1, file2);
 
 	if(stat(file1, &st1)) return 0;
 	if(stat(file2, &st2)) return 0;
 
 	return (st1.st_mtime < st2.st_mtime);
 }
+const char *makesrna_path= NULL;
 
 static int replace_if_different(char *tmpfile, const char *dep_files[])
 {
@@ -102,6 +104,10 @@ static int replace_if_different(char *tmpfile, const char *dep_files[])
 			REN_IF_DIFF;
 		}
 
+		if(file_older(orgfile, makesrna_path)) {
+			REN_IF_DIFF;
+		}
+
 		/* now check if any files we depend on are newer then any generated files */
 		if(dep_files) {
 			int pass;
@@ -2783,6 +2789,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	}
 	else {
 		printf("Running makesrna, program versions %s\n",  RNA_VERSION_DATE);
+		makesrna_path= argv[0];
 		return_status= rna_preprocess(argv[1]);
 	}