Re: How do i get make install to only copy target if it was rebuilt

2007-07-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It's possible to make your install-target depend on the file that you want to install, but doing that for several files can be tedious. I do this in regular makefiles, for instance $(INSTALLDIR)/foo: $(SRCDIR

Re: How do i get make install to only copy target if it was rebuilt

2007-07-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Benoit SIGOURE wrote on Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:46:47PM CEST: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-10/msg00070.html See this one as well: Cheers, Ralf

Re: How do i get make install to only copy target if it was rebuilt

2007-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's possible to make your install-target depend on the file that you > want to install, but doing that for several files can be tedious. I do > this in regular makefiles, for instance > $(INSTALLDIR)/foo: $(SRCDIR)/foo > $(INSTALL) $(SRCDIR)/foo

Re: How do i get make install to only copy target if it was rebuilt

2007-07-06 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Jul 6, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Jeff Safier wrote: Make install seems to copy the target whether its been rebuilt or not and every time the file is copied it puts a new timestamp on the file. You might want to have a look at these two threads: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps h

Re: How do i get make install to only copy target if it was rebuilt

2007-07-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Jeff Safier wrote: Make install seems to copy the target whether its been rebuilt or not and every time the file is copied it puts a new timestamp on the file. that's another of those features which the automake maintainer doesn't agree with. It's possible to make your i

How do i get make install to only copy target if it was rebuilt

2007-07-06 Thread Jeff Safier
Make install seems to copy the target whether its been rebuilt or not and every time the file is copied it puts a new timestamp on the file. Jeff Safier Cornell-Mayo Associates 600 Lanidex Plaza Parsipanny, NJ 07054 Phone: (973) 887 3069 X119 Fax: (973) 887-0383 Information contained in this