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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2002 04:21:09 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: UPDATING entry needed (Re: Building KDE3)
Message-ID:  <20021024041602.T23784-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021023111852.GB31781@sunbay.com>

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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:34:25PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > I normally do something like:
> >
> > find /usr/include -ctime +1 -type f -delete
> >
> > To clean out stale includes after a buildworld.  Perhaps something
> > like this should be added to the end of the directions.
> >
> Headers are normally installed with ``install -C'', and those
> that did not change recently will not be touched at all.  The
> command above will effectively remove these.

Only if someone "fix"es ``install -C'' to not change ctimes.  -C only
causes mtimes to be preserved.  ``install -C'' often needs to touch
metadata and it does this unconditionally to simplify things; this has
the somewhat intentional side effect of changing the ctime.

Bruce


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