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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: patch for install-sh to prevent unnecessary copying
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2002-07-24 20:23:29
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As this patch is for the admin directory, please send your corrected path also 
to mailto:kde-core-devel@kde.org

Have a nice day/evening/night!

On Mittwoch, 24. Juli 2002 00:31, Con Hennessy wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I'm using Solaris where there is no /usr/bin/install
> available, therefore the script admin/install-sh is used.
> However one drawback of this script is that it does not check
> to see whether the copy it is about to make is unnecessary.
> The consequence of this is only really seen when you want
> to do a build of something depending on those header files,
> when the dependency calculation of "make" sees that time
> stamp of the header is more recent than that of the
> file to be compiled, therefore compile the file.
>
> This is definitely noticeable when making any slight change
> to kdelibs and doing a "make install". This means that a
> make in any other kde module ( e.g. kdebase ), will be
> *completely* recompiled even though it is not necessary!!!
>
> Anyway attached is a patch for kdelibs/admin/install-sh
> which works for me on a Solaris 8.
> Obviously this patch(or a corrected version of it) should
> also be applied to all kde modules.
>
> Thanks
> CP Hennessy

 
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