Reorganize contrib/egcs_update
Jerry Quinn
jquinn@nortelnetworks.com
Tue Jul 20 11:17:00 GMT 1999
>> "Gerald" == Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
Gerald> On 13 Jul 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> This is sure complicated; I don't understand why we need to use touch at
>> all
>> Because it sometimes happens that a dependency file changes but the
>> generated file doesn't.
Gerald> In addition, Joe Average User might have done a manual `cvs update`,
Gerald> for example when switching branches, instead of using egcs_update or
Gerald> some script like yours. -- "Better touch than sorry". :-)
Also, some of us can't use cvs, and touch makes sure that applying a patch
file works even if the generated file is patched before the dependency file.
Jerry
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