On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 12:33:53PM -0800, Jeff Clites wrote:
> 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:
ExtUtils::Command provides tested cross-platform versions of the most
common shell functions. These should be used.
For example:
perl -"MExtUtils::Command" -e touch
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