Re: `cp' don't preserve timestamps by default on windows-xp

[Zhang Wei]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> If they have the same timestamps, why do you get "source is newer"
> messages?  I don't get them on my machine, and lread.c explicitly
> checks for .elc time _less_ than the .el time, not _less_or_equal_.
> Could you please look closer at this problem and tell where do the
> messages come from, and why?

I'm not sure if the `make' program does multi-process `cp' when copying
files, but some of the .el files become 1 second or 2 seconds newer than
the corresponding .elc files after `make install', these files cause the
"source is newer" messages.