Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 21:59:49 +0200
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: hardcoded -C argument to ${INSTALL}
Message-ID: <58317.1052251189@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 May 2003 12:44:29 PDT." <3EB8109D.2060307@isi.edu>
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In message <3EB8109D.2060307@isi.edu>, Lars Eggert writes:
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>Hi,
>
>I'm putting a script together that will remove stale pieces after an
>installworld, and my find+mtime approach chokes, because some uses of
>${INSTALL} in the Makefiles hardcode the -C argument, which will cause
>file modification times to not be updated if the files are identical.
I would argue this is actually the correct behaviour.o
My suggestion for such a tool would be to run make installworld with
a DESTDIR set, and compare the two trees ?
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