Re: How do you force make to overwrite all files upon make install?

--- Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 07:24:39AM -0700, DH wrote:
> > > > bother
> > > > since it would be a no-op.  'make install' will do that by default.  
> > > > How is
> > > > it not overwriting?
> > 
> > I don't know how the modification detection is being done,
> > i'm not particularly interested,
> > I just  want to force an overwrite regardless.
> 
> It checks size, modification time and ultimately uses File::Compare.
> 
> I can't see the need to force an overwrite if the files are exactly the same,
> so I'm not inclined to implement an "always overwrite" feature.  Some major
> convincing would be in order.
> 

It's simple.
Why should I bother checking to see if the files have changed,
if all I want is to blindly overwrite regardless.
Why should I have to resort to touching
all the files or uninstalling (which is iffy) so I can essentially blindly overwrite ?



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