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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: Why install -C include files? 
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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:18:56 +0200
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:17:05 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> In that case, I'd really like to make this behaviour in the build
> optional so that it's easy for FreeBSD developers to easily identify
> stale includes.
> 
> Perhaps I could replace all instances of the -C option to install(8)
> with ${INSTALLCOPY} and have INSTALLCOPY default to -C?

Hell, we already have COPY, we're just not using it.  I'll submit
patches for review to the appropriate lists.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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