Hello Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:25:27PM CEST: > > [...] perhaps > we should have two options, --copy-preserve and --copy. However, it > won't be a problem for me (I don't use --copy) and it won't be a > problem for Bruno (he does a make distclean after a bootstrap). Were > you planning to use --copy?
I'll try to switch between all that are available as much as I can, to avoid getting bored, and to uncover as many bugs as possible by being unpredictable. I don't ever use distclean in my normal build tree though (at least not unless I switch bootstrap invocation styles); that loses my configuration information and covers up potential bugs. But what I prefer is irrelevant for the aim to write good software; and coreutil's bootstrap is one likely to be copied to or imitated in other packages (I think it already is); then the safest would IMVHO be a --copy that uses plain cp (maybe the optimization of leaving the file alone when its contents did not change, could be added sometime later); a --copy-preserve could also be added, but should not be the default. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
