Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:24:42 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install -C Message-ID: <199902142124.OAA22436@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <86u2wpc0iy.fsf@niobe.ewox.org> References: <86u2wpc0iy.fsf@niobe.ewox.org>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > There's something funny about make installworld. > > Specifically, it installs a lot of files with "install -C" regardless > of whether or not the INSTALL variable in /etc/make.conf actually is > set to "install -C". This is the case for: > > * header files > * C++ template files .... > My main argument against always installing certain files with "install > -C" is that makes it very difficult to clean up after a major upgrade, > since you can't rely on "live" files to have a recent timestamp. You shouldn't rely on timestamps for determining if a file is valid or not. > I've talked to people on IRC who deleted their Elf interpreter because > its mtime predated their last make world. Shooting yourself in the > foot like that is too high a price for the few seconds saved during > make installworld. Dr., Dr., it hurts when I do this. Then *DON'T* do it. If you don't know what you are doing, then don't do stupid things. I think the defaults should stay the way they are, because there are very valid reasons for using 'install -C' on the special files described. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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