ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor) wrote on 02.09.05 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > > > ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor) wrote on 01.09.05 in > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > a.out archives used to work this way too, e.g. on SunOS 4. The idea > > > was that people would often use ar without updating the symbol table. > > > Thus the symbol table has a timestamp. The linker checks that the > > > timestamp of the symbol table is not older than the file modification > > > time of the archive. > > > > But then all you have to do is copy the timestamp, too. This sounded more > > like saving inode numbers and stuff ... > > > > I am, of course, accustomed to a cp that can copy timestamps. And I see > > that my install also has a -p option ... > > We're talking SunOS 4 here, which was just acting as earlier systems > did. Back then the options to cp were -i, -f and -r. And install was > a new fangled shell script that most packages didn't use. Darwin isn't SunOS 4. MfG Kai
