* Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:52:27AM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A failure case with `cp -p': > > cd gnulib && cvs up > > cd .../coreutils && make && ./bootstrap && make > > I don't understand this failure case. "cvs up" modifies the > time stamps to the current date, and "cp -p" will copy > the modified time stamps, so it's behaving like symlinks > would.
Argh, it was incomplete, sorry. Assume the first `make' causes some object files to be updated, say, because of a previous `make clean', or simply because they were out of date. Those object files will then have a timestamp that is newer than the versions of the gnulib files that reside in the gnulib directory. So after bootstrap, they may not be remade although they should have been. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
