- From: Steve K Speicher <sspeiche@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 07:50:11 -0400
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
"Jim Whitehead" wrote: > Are there other typical uses of touch(1) of which I'm unaware? FWIW: I've used touch(1) to NOT allow the recompilation using make. I have used touch(1) to set the modification time of a file back to what it was previous to a modification, was when it affected a source file in a build tree that was on a shared file system (DFS) for multiple platform builds. Since only a few C++ compilers on some platforms would fail on a certain file, if I was to fix that one header file then all platform builds would be out-of-date and need to be rebuilt (or at least be rerun with "make -t"). To solve this, I would just do a 'touch <previous-mod-time>' on the header file and make all the prebuilt trees appear to be up-to-date again. I'm not necessarily advocating supporting this *hack*, I'm just answering JimW's question. To get similar behavior like this in DAV, I guess I'd just have to do something similar to "make -t" to make the builds up-to-date. Steve
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