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Re: emacs-dev: 'unpack' phase does not seem to preserve timestamps


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: emacs-dev: 'unpack' phase does not seem to preserve timestamps
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 14:13:45 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux)

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Yes, that’s annoying, but that’s expected.  
>
> Right, but then how would it be possible to call `make install` without
> rebuilding everything all over again?
>
>> Perhaps the ‘unpack’
>> phase could automatically make the copy that it creates with
>> ‘copy-recursively’ writable?
>
> That wouldn't solve the issue: it would build but the point is to skip
> the compilation phase.
>
> Can you think of a way around this?

Nope.  Again, Git does not “preserve” timestamps (rightly so IMO), so
there’s nothing we can do.

Ludo’.



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