Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Hi Thomas, * Thomas Schwinge wrote on Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:12:49PM CEST: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 09:23:15PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > > > > I installed the following to Automake install-sh to implement > > "install-sh -C", which is the second part of that patch. > However now there is ano

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Hello! It's been some time, but still... On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 09:23:15PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-10/msg00070.html > > I installed the following to Automake install-sh to implement > "

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Le 25 déc. 06 à 11:46, Thomas Schwinge a écrit : [I added the patch's author, Akim Demaille, to the cc list, as it was not sure if he's still reading the list.] You're right, I'm not. Hello! Hi, and merry Chrismas. On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 04:21:50PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: Benoit

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-10/msg00070.html I installed the following to Automake install-sh to implement "install-sh -C", which is the second part of that patch. 2006-12-25 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This brings up the following question: if `-C' shall be used a) by > default in Autoconf's `AC_PROG_INSTALL' if available or b) if requested > by the programmer through setting some flag, and `install-sh' supports > `-C', but the system's `install' exe

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

[I added the patch's author, Akim Demaille, to the cc list, as it was not sure if he's still reading the list.] Hello! On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 04:21:50PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-10/msg00070

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-10/msg00070.html That patch does two things: it cleans up and refactors the code, and it adds -C to install-sh. I split it into two. Here's the first part, which is just the cleanup part. It sh

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-10/msg00070.html Sorry, I missed that one. The idea looks reasonable, but that solves the problem for install-sh only, right? GNU 'install' still wouldn't support -C. Also, the updated patch pr

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Quoting Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quoting Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I like the basic idea for this. The patches would have to be contributed by someone who's signed the appropriate papers, since it's a nontrivial change. As soon as this thread started, I talked with Akim D

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Quoting Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I like the basic idea for this. The patches would have to be contributed by someone who's signed the appropriate papers, since it's a nontrivial change. As soon as this thread started, I talked with Akim Demaille about this issue and he said he alre

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

I like the basic idea for this. The patches would have to be contributed by someone who's signed the appropriate papers, since it's a nontrivial change.

``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Hello! Please tell me if that has been discussed before -- I couldn't come up with good search terms to check myself. Automake section. I was thinking about the following: when in a package P1 (using Automake) e.g. C header files are installed via ``make install'', they are installed unconditio