Re: install-sh -C

2006-10-25 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 05:35:31PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > > find stampfile -newer $file indeed, according to the documentation, the predicate is true if stampfile is strictly newer than $file. So the implementation would have to be something like: # is_younger FILE FILES # --

Re: install-sh -C

2006-10-25 Thread Akim Demaille
Certainly. But frequently in Automake tests the problem is as follows: do_something with $file $sleep touch stampfile do_something_else with $file ensure that $file is updated/not updated. If the last command is done with `ls -1t', I either have to think about the locale ordering