Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:45:35 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installworld and /usr/include/*.h modification times Message-ID: <44pq9j9b9c.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B7WWSdnNQZY1Ei793cy4=54LED6A=o_qkMkYv5hTmF7E41D7w@mail.gmail.com> (Kimmo Paasiala's message of "Fri, 1 Jun 2012 16:42:45 %2B0300") References: <CA%2B7WWSdnNQZY1Ei793cy4=54LED6A=o_qkMkYv5hTmF7E41D7w@mail.gmail.com>
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Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> writes: > Why are /usr/include files installed with "install -C" during "make > installworld" when almost everything else is installed without the -C > flag? This makes it harder to track which files were actually > installed during the last "make installworld". One can easily find > obsolete files (that are not covered with make delete-old(-libs)) > with "find -x / -type f -mtime +suitable_time" but this doesn't work > for /usr/include files because the modification times are not bumped > on "make installworld". "make" uses timestamps to determine whether to trigger a rule. Changing timestamps on source files without changing the contents is a bad idea.
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