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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
