Paul D. Smith wrote:
> Hmm. Are you using Irix "cp" to do this? If so, this may be a bug in
> the Irix "cp" command. Maybe.
>
> If you're using another cp, then that's probably your problem...
Good idea. I checked and found, by putting explicit paths to cp in
the makefile that /usr/bin/cp, /sbin/cp, and /usr/freeware/bin/cp
(GNU fileutils 3.16) all exhibit the same behavior.
> GNU make 3.79 uses the nanosecond field of struct stat, if the system
> provides it. If the version of "cp -p" you're using doesn't correctly
> copy the value of the nanosecond timestamp field over along with the
> rest of the timestamp, you'd get the behavior you describe (because "a"
> has a timestamp of x.00010 seconds (for example), while "b" has a
> timestamp of x.00000 seconds).
I presume your implying that this behavior is new to make-3.79.
Is there a later version of GNU cp which copies across the
nanosecond field also? It seems that even the SGI versions do not.
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