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Re: [patch] stephen's staging headers patch
- To: "Stephen M.Webb" <stephenw at cryptocard dot com>
- Subject: Re: [patch] stephen's staging headers patch
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 10:30:20 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
> Yeah, I think I fixed that fairly soon after I posted the original patch.
> A small but important change.
Hmm. What's the change?
> The problem with soft links is (as far as my experience goes), they don't
> support dependency tracking by timestamp. If files are soft linked and I
> change one, the timestamp of the link itself does not change, make
> fails to notice the change, and things don't get rebuilt. Of course, I haven't
> tried this in practice, so I don't know if it's really a problem or not.
Hmm. Well, perhaps we can try this patch both ways, with and without
links.
-benjamin