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

2006-12-24 Thread Paul Eggert
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

2006-12-24 Thread Paul Eggert
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

2006-12-24 Thread Benoit Sigoure
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

2006-12-24 Thread Benoit Sigoure
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