[patch] stephen's staging headers patch
Benjamin Kosnik
bkoz@redhat.com
Tue Jul 3 11:16:00 GMT 2001
> 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
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