Philip Prindeville wrote:
I'm still not clear, though: if the file being installed is part
of the
sources that's being built (i.e. it's not a generated file), and the
makefile that does the install invoked "cp --preserve=timestamps"
then both the .i386 and the .x86_64 copies should have an identical
timestamp. Right?
Consider the case where the installed file(s) are build-time generated.
These are *very* unlikely to have identical timestamps (having been
built separately on different archs/buildhosts).
-- Rex