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Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time.
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Samuel Williams |
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Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time. |
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Fri, 5 Apr 2013 23:56:19 +1300 |
Well, according to the man page "-c" is the default and not required at least for GNU install. I'm not familiar with what packages use as a default typically. Freetype is not the only package with this behaviour. However, just because it is the default behaviour doesn't mean that it is desirable behaviour. It makes sense to me that if file's contents are not changing, that the mtime is not modified either. Essentially that is what -C does, it doesn't copy the file if it already exists and has identical content. Whether or not this is expected behaviour or not is something you'd have to decide for your own project. However, at least in the case discussed above, it has undesirable behaviour. I have noticed similar behaviour from libpng, but I'm also planning to switch to CMake for building libpng, I wonder if it has the same issue or not?
- [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Samuel Williams, 2013/04/04
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Werner LEMBERG, 2013/04/04
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Samuel Williams, 2013/04/05
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Werner LEMBERG, 2013/04/05
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Samuel Williams, 2013/04/05
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Werner LEMBERG, 2013/04/05
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time.,
Samuel Williams <=
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Werner LEMBERG, 2013/04/05
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Tom Kacvinsky, 2013/04/05
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Tom Kacvinsky, 2013/04/05
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Samuel Williams, 2013/04/06
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Antoine Leca, 2013/04/10
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Samuel Williams, 2013/04/16
- Re: [ft-devel] ft2build.h being regenerated each time., Antoine Leca, 2013/04/25