[csw-maintainers] cannot set overrides for Emacs: please review

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński's message of Fri May 25 10:43:17 -0400 2012:

> > After modifying overrides, you need to run: mgar remerge
> >
> > The merge step generates the overrides file and it needs to be rebuilt
> > after any change.
>
> Dago, even when GAR doesn't regenerate the overrides during repackage
> stage, could it at least detect that there's a problem?

This is likely a bit unorthodox, but if the target that generates the
overrides file had a dependency on trunk/Makefile, we could
automatically trigger a rebuild when the Makefile changes...

(There is probably a good reason not to do this though.)

Thanks
-Ben
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