Re: Timestamp of symbolic links!

[Paul D. Smith]

%% psmith <address@hidden> writes:

  p> is there a way of configuring/compiling make to check the timestamp of a
  p> symbolic link rather than the file pointed to by the link. (e.g. replace
  p> stat() with lstat() ). This is necessary as our configuration management
  p> software uses links to point to a shared cache. We are using Solaris.

Not without changing the code.  There is no configuration or runtime
option to do this.

However, the changes are pretty simple.

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