bpo-23404 replaced "make touch" with "make regen-all". Generated files are no more regenerated based on file modification time anymore, the action is now explicit.

Zachary Ware proposed to add a buildbot to check that generated files are up to date: run "make regen-all" and test that no file was modified.

I also asked if something similar should be done for autoconf?
http://bugs.python.org/issue23404#msg292829

Oh, Zachary: it seems like you already implemented this check, no?

"Use Travis to make sure all generated files are up to date"
[MERGED] https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/2080

make -j4
      make -j4 regen-all clinic
      changes=`git status --porcelain`
      if ! test -z "$changes"
      then
        echo "Generated files not up to date"
        echo "$changes"
        exit 1
      fi

I understand that we build the whole Python, and only later check if generated files are up to date.

Why not checking if generated files are up to date *before* compiling Python?

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/2543 confirms that the "make regen-all" test works, the CI fails with:

Generated files not up to date

 M Include/Python-ast.h

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/2542 confirms that the "make clinic" test works, the CI fails with:

Generated files not up to date

 M Modules/clinic/posixmodule.c.h

 M Modules/posixmodule.c

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I close the issue, thanks Zach for the automated tests!