Re: POSIX ruling on up-to-date vs. identical timestamps

[David Boyce]

The obvious compromise would be to change the behavior only in the
presence of the ".POSIX:" special target.

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>>
>> You may want to check out http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=857 and
>> add comments and/or change GNU make behavior accordingly.
>
>
> Let's leave GNU 'make' alone.  Its behavior is better for rules like this:
>
> copy: original
>         cp -p original copy
>
> I've added a comment to the Austin Group page.
>
>
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