Re: Broken make

[Matthias Kilian]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:18:58PM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> I found this interesting link:
> 
> https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/?35556
> 
> It looks like "cp -u" will only work under Linux.  John added the "-u"
> flag earlier this month to avoid some error messages (likely different
> from yours).
> 
> So, we can either remove the "-u" flag or find a different solution
> that still provides the fix John made.

Just drop it. If the destination file has to be updated whenever
the source file changes, let make(1) handle it.

Oh, and for general information what options are available for
standard tools:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/toc.htm