On Mar 16,  8:29pm, jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Stone) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: upcoming changes

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| 
| Christos writes:
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| [[ install that supports links,  and BUILD and UPDATE make variables
|    to make "make build DESTDIR=/other" create a working independent tree ][
| 
| Please consider making soft links the default Makefile action, at
| least for installing cross-directory links.  (or more accurately, for
| link that cross ``reasonable'' partition boundaries)
| And if I'm wrong, feel free to point it out bluntly :).

I will fix that.

| Sounds great to me, modulo the problem above.
| Can we also get
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| 	* move-if-change semantics (a la FreeBSD's install -C),
| 	  so that rebuilt manpages don't get reinstalled if
| 	  the new manage is byte-for-byte identical to an
| 	  older, apparently out-of-date, installed manpage?
| 
| 	* installation that (at least for  files installed -c and
| 	  unstripped) preserves the inode time(s) of the original?
| 

I will take a look at FreeBSD's install before I touch install again.

Thanks for the feedback!

christos