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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 1999 12:06:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
Cc:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Huge differences in suid programs ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912271204070.1402-100000@pawn.primelocation.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991227095920.A9365@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Chad R. Larson wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 05:17:46PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> > At 1:45 PM +0000 1999/12/27, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > 
> > >  The timestamp has changed on the files because make world replaced
> > >  them so they're different.
> > 
> > 	Right, but *why* are they so different?  Was it perhaps a change 
> > in a library, a change in the compiler, or was it that the source 
> > code for these programs itself actually changed so much?
> 
> The "make world" regenerates every binary on the machine, unless you
> set the "no clean" option.  It does so without regard to whether the
> source for any particular program has changed.
> 

OTOH, if you set:

INSTALL=install -C

in /etc/make.conf, unchanged files will not have their modification time
changed.

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