() Nick Bowler <nbow...@draconx.ca> () Tue, 3 Nov 2020 11:21:51 -0500
In general, preserving timestamps while copying files cannot
be done reliably and when it is possible, it is difficult to
do in a portable fashion.
[ideas]
Right, preservation is not really required.
> The background reason is that i am installing .scm and .go
> files (the latter compiled from the former) and the .go
> files need to have a "later" timestamp than the .scm files
> for Guile to DTRT.
"Later" here means "greater than?" Or is "greater than or
equal to" acceptable?
I need "greater than or equal", i think (from reading
libguile/load.c func ‘compiled_is_fresh’).
> I suppose a workaround is to use an installation hook to
> simply touch(1) the .go files.
An install hook would be my recommendation.
You should touch both files, as some "touch" implementations
truncate timestamps (this means a touched file could
potentially get an earlier timestamp than an untouched one).
Touching both files only ensures "greater than or equal to"
timestamps. If the timestamps must also be different then
this is a bit trickier (call touch in a loop until the
timestamp changes).
Thanks. I didn't think/know about the (potential) truncation.
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