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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:06:22 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Why install -C include files?
Message-ID:  <20010725150622.A54202@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <1561.996068615@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:43:35PM %2B0200
References:  <1561.996068615@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>

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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:43:35PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> Why are include files installed using -C instead of -c?  This makes it
> harder to find stale includes.

If you changed the date on header files which hadn't changed then
next time you typed make on a project with carfully set up dependencies
everything would end up getting recompiled.

	David.

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