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

[Ray Donnelly]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 8:03 PM, David Boyce <address@hidden> wrote:
> The obvious compromise would be to change the behavior only in the
> presence of the ".POSIX:" special target.

Sounds pragmatic; the repeatable builds people would probably like a
solution that doesn't require changing Makefiles though, either an
env. var or a command line option?

>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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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