# New Ticket Created by Jeff Clites # Please include the string: [perl #32245] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32245 >
The Makefile uses this in place of the 'touch' command: perl -e 'open(A,qq{>>$_}) or die foreach @ARGV' On Mac OS X at least, this doesn't result in updating the timestamp of the passed-in files. (Also, by my reading of the POSIX/SUSv3 spec, this is correct behavior--open() isn't supposed to update the timestamp of an existing file.) I wonder if this works on any platform--maybe Win32? I suggest that the value of TOUCH be configurable, defaulting to the 'touch' command on Unix-like systems--not sure what to use for other systems. Or we could try this, which might work for all systems: perl -e '$now = time; open(A,qq{>>$_}) && utime($now, $now, $_) or die foreach @ARGV' I don't know the origin of what we currently have, so I thought I'd send this in for comment before supplying a patch. (I noticed this because the "ast" part of the Makefile was firing for me every time.) JEff