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Re: POSIX ruling on up-to-date vs. identical timestamps


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: POSIX ruling on up-to-date vs. identical timestamps
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:13:56 -0700
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Eric Blake wrote:
You may want to check out http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=857 and
add comments and/or change GNU make behavior accordingly.

Let's leave GNU 'make' alone.  Its behavior is better for rules like this:

copy: original
        cp -p original copy

I've added a comment to the Austin Group page.



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